The Suffering of the Impassible God: The Dialectics of Patristic Thought

ISBN-13: 9780199297115 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 224 str.

L. Gavrilyuk Paul

Opis

This book provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.

Recenzje

Gavrilyuk has written an excellent book suitable not only for scholars but for students as well.

O autorze

Paul L. Gavrilyuk is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology in the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota.