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

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Author(s): Paul L. Gavrilyuk
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Year: 2004

Language: English
Pages: 224

Contents......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 11
Introduction......Page 14
1. The Case Against the Theory of Theology's Fall into Hellenistic Philosophy......Page 34
2. The Christian God v. Passionate Pagan Deities: Impassibility as an Apophatic Qualifier of Divine Emotions......Page 60
3. Docetism Resisted: Christ's Suffering is Real......Page 77
4. Patripassian Controversy Resolved: The Son, not God the Father, Suffered in the Incarnation......Page 104
5. Arianism Opposed: The Word's Divinity is Not Diminished by Involvement in Suffering......Page 114
6. Nestorianism Countered: Cyril's Theology of the Divine Kenosis......Page 148
Conclusion......Page 185
Appendix......Page 189
Bibliography......Page 193
Index of Select Biblical References......Page 210
A......Page 212
C......Page 213
D......Page 214
F......Page 215
H......Page 216
I......Page 217
L......Page 218
N......Page 219
P......Page 220
S......Page 221
U......Page 222
Z......Page 223