The suffering of the impassible God : the dialectics of patristic thought

Paul L. Gavrilyuk
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004
xii, 210 p. ; 23 cm
Book
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  • I. The case against the theory of theology's fall into Hellenistic philosophy
  • II. The Christian God v. passionate pagan deities : impassibility as an apophatic qualifier of divine emotions
  • III. Docetisim resisted : Christ's suffering is real
  • IV. Patripassian controversy resolved : the Son, not the Father, suffered in the Incarnation
  • V. Arianism opposed : the Word's divinity is not diminished by involvement in suffering
  • VI. Nestorianism countered : Cyril's theology of the divine kenosis
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [180]-196) and indexes
  • Oxford University Press
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  • 9780199297115 (pbk)
  • text
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  • unmediated
  • https://cms.trccloud.hk/opac/bib/AOFQ