What cogent defence can be offered for the doctrine of God's impassibility, in the face of open theism and unorthodox views on the Trinity? |
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True enough, the language of impassibility is deeply embedded in patristic theology going back to Ignatius of Antioch. |
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He defends the Christological formulation of Chalcedon, but criticizes it on the point of divine impassibility. |
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More materially, it is a guiding concern of his thinking to push out the envelope made by the teaching of divine impassibility. |
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In the first place, impassibility seems inconsistent with God's knowledge of the world. |
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To illustrate Anselm's method, I shall examine his discussions of God's impassibility, timelessness, and simplicity. |
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He defends impassibility as being uncontrolled by outside influences. |
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Still, the impassibility of many streets made routine ambulance runs into odysseys, sometimes with life-threatening or fatal consequences. |
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For the doctrine of impassibility implies that God's real properties depend on nothing other than himself. |
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Molina's theory is designed to save both the freedom of the creatures and the divine immutability and impassibility. |
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Actually, DDI neither implies nor is implied by divine impassibility. |
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