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God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion
Bruce A. Ware, Rob Lister
4.2 AVERAGE
2 reviews for:
God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion
Bruce A. Ware, Rob Lister
4.2 AVERAGE
This was a very good book. Originally Lister's PhD dissertation at SBTS, Lister seeks to show how God is both impassible (by which he means that He is not swayed surprisingly emotionally) while at the same time impassioned. Just as God is both transcendent and immanent, He is both impassible and impassioned.
He surveys historical data - most notably a fresh survey of what the church fathers believed about impassibilism -, the influence of passibilism in contemporary theology, and offers his fresh take as a development on historical themes. Since this book was a dissertation, it is very technical, but there was much beneficial reflection on all sorts of areas of theology that deal with the God who is ontologically different than man, yet analogically near.
As an aside, I think it's fascinating how most evangelicals studying systematic theology - including me! - don't really understand what impassibilism actually posits. Impassiblism doesn't mean that God doesn't have emotions - far from it! Rather, His emotions are in perfect unity and are displayed distinctly in redemptive history.
Lister convincingly shows that ultimately, contra contemporary passibilism, the God who is impassible and impassioned serves as a better comforter in the times of trial. I was blessed and enriched by this book and am excited to see what sort of discussion it will continue to foster in the coming years.
He surveys historical data - most notably a fresh survey of what the church fathers believed about impassibilism -, the influence of passibilism in contemporary theology, and offers his fresh take as a development on historical themes. Since this book was a dissertation, it is very technical, but there was much beneficial reflection on all sorts of areas of theology that deal with the God who is ontologically different than man, yet analogically near.
As an aside, I think it's fascinating how most evangelicals studying systematic theology - including me! - don't really understand what impassibilism actually posits. Impassiblism doesn't mean that God doesn't have emotions - far from it! Rather, His emotions are in perfect unity and are displayed distinctly in redemptive history.
Lister convincingly shows that ultimately, contra contemporary passibilism, the God who is impassible and impassioned serves as a better comforter in the times of trial. I was blessed and enriched by this book and am excited to see what sort of discussion it will continue to foster in the coming years.
A good, short investigation of divine impassibility. Very repetitive and is actually more valuable for its critique and presentation of modern passibilist claims (i.e. Moltmann) than for its positive arguments.