Why Can’t the Impassible God Suffer? Analytic Reflections on Divine Blessedness

Why Can’t the Impassible God Suffer? Analytic Reflections on Divine Blessedness

According to classical theism, impassibility is said to be systematically connected to divine attributes like timelessness, immutability, simplicity, aseity, and self-sufficiency. In some interesting way, these attributes are meant to explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. I shall argue that...

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Main Author: R. T. Mullins
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: Catholic University of Louvain 2018-03-01
Series:TheoLogica
Online Access:https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/theologica/article/view/1313
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spelling doaj-95196f5398974e1d974d538728e8d8d32020-11-25T01:01:43ZdeuCatholic University of LouvainTheoLogica2593-02652018-03-012110.14428/thl.v0i0.1313Why Can’t the Impassible God Suffer? Analytic Reflections on Divine BlessednessR. T. Mullins0University of St Andrews According to classical theism, impassibility is said to be systematically connected to divine attributes like timelessness, immutability, simplicity, aseity, and self-sufficiency. In some interesting way, these attributes are meant to explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. I shall argue that these attributes do not explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. In order to understand why the impassible God cannot suffer, one must examine the emotional life of the impassible God. I shall argue that the necessarily happy emotional life of the classical God explains why the impassible God cannot suffer. https://ojs.uclouvain.be/index.php/theologica/article/view/1313
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description According to classical theism, impassibility is said to be systematically connected to divine attributes like timelessness, immutability, simplicity, aseity, and self-sufficiency. In some interesting way, these attributes are meant to explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. I shall argue that these attributes do not explain why the impassible God cannot suffer. In order to understand why the impassible God cannot suffer, one must examine the emotional life of the impassible God. I shall argue that the necessarily happy emotional life of the classical God explains why the impassible God cannot suffer.
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