Suffering of the Impassible God, The

Contents

• 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