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Beschreibung
This book provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.
This book provides a major reconsideration of the issue of divine suffering and divine emotions in the early Church Fathers. Patristic writers are commonly criticized for falling prey to Hellenistic philosophy and uncritically accepting the claim that God cannot suffer or feel emotions. Gavrilyuk shows that this view represents a misreading of evidence. In contrast, he construes the development of patristic thought as a series of dialectical turning points taken to safeguard the paradox of God's voluntary and salvific suffering in the Incarnation.
Über den Autor
Paul L. Gavrilyuk is Assistant Professor of Historical Theology in the University of St Thomas, St Paul, Minnesota.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
  • Introduction

  • 1: Testing the fall into Hellenistic philosophy theory

  • 2: The function of divine impassibility in patristic theology

  • 3: The reality of Christ's suffering defended in the struggle with Docetism

  • 4: Patripassian controversy: the Son, not God the Father, is the subject of the Incarnation

  • 5: The orthodox response to Arianism: involvement in suffering does not diminish Christ's divinity

  • 6: The case of Cyril against Nestorius: a theology of divine self-emptying

  • Conclusion

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2006
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780199297115
ISBN-10: 0199297118
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Gavrilyuk, Paul L.
Hersteller: OUP Oxford
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, Postfach:81 03 40, D-70567 Stuttgart, vertrieb@dbg.de
Maße: 216 x 140 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Paul L. Gavrilyuk
Erscheinungsdatum: 27.04.2006
Gewicht: 0,322 kg
Artikel-ID: 108629620

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