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Divine impassibility and the mystery of human suffering / edited by James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White.

Contributor(s): Keating, James | White, Thomas Joseph, 1971-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., [2009]Copyright date: ©2009Description: x, 357 pages ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780802863478 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0802863477 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Suffering of God -- Congresses | Suffering -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- CongressesDDC classification: 231/.4 LOC classification: BT153.S8 | D58 2009Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Introduction : divine impassibility in contemporary theology / James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White -- The immutability of the God of love and the problem of language concerning the "suffering of God" / Gilles Emery -- "One suffering, in two natures" : an analogical inquiry into divine and human suffering / Gary Culpepper -- God and human suffering : his act of creation and his acts in history / Thomas G. Weinandy -- Ipse pater non est impassibilis / Robert W. Jenson -- God's impassible suffering in the flesh : the promise of paradoxical Christology / Paul L. Gavrilyuk -- Divine impassibility or simply divine constancy? : implications of Karl Barth's later Christology for debates over impassibility / Bruce L. McCormack -- Impassibility in St. Hilary of Poitiers's De trinitate / Trent Pomplun -- St. Thomas Aquinas, the communication of idioms, and the suffering of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane / Paul Gondreau -- The dereliction of Christ and the impassibility of God / Bruce D. Marshall -- Impassibility as transcendence : on the infinite innocence of God / David Bentley Hart -- Divine providence and the mystery of human suffering / Avery Cardinal Dulles.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction : divine impassibility in contemporary theology / James F. Keating and Thomas Joseph White -- The immutability of the God of love and the problem of language concerning the "suffering of God" / Gilles Emery -- "One suffering, in two natures" : an analogical inquiry into divine and human suffering / Gary Culpepper -- God and human suffering : his act of creation and his acts in history / Thomas G. Weinandy -- Ipse pater non est impassibilis / Robert W. Jenson -- God's impassible suffering in the flesh : the promise of paradoxical Christology / Paul L. Gavrilyuk -- Divine impassibility or simply divine constancy? : implications of Karl Barth's later Christology for debates over impassibility / Bruce L. McCormack -- Impassibility in St. Hilary of Poitiers's De trinitate / Trent Pomplun -- St. Thomas Aquinas, the communication of idioms, and the suffering of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane / Paul Gondreau -- The dereliction of Christ and the impassibility of God / Bruce D. Marshall -- Impassibility as transcendence : on the infinite innocence of God / David Bentley Hart -- Divine providence and the mystery of human suffering / Avery Cardinal Dulles.

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