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PotOnWheel
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| Posted 11/26/2002 5:48 AM (GMT -6) |   | Divine Impassibility and Our Suffering God: How an Evangelical "Theology of the Cross" Can and Should Affirm Both
By Peter D. Anders
An important aspect of the Christian gospel that seeks to proclaim the love, mercy, and compassion of God is the affirmation of God's identification and solidarity with human suffering. A suffering humanity needs a God who knows what it means to suffer. The church has traditionally met this need by emphasizing the passion and death of Jesus Christ. Especially in the theology of the Reformation, a "theology of the cross" sought to recognize God's self-revelation hidden in the humility, shame, and suffering of the cross of Jesus Christ. Through the theology of the cross, God is known as the God who suffers with and for humanity. Yet, how does God identify with human suffering? Does God suffer in himself, in his own being; or is God immutable (unchanging), and therefore impassible (incapable of suffering), as the church has historically affirmed? Can God's impassibility be upheld while at the same time affirming his real awareness of, and true identification with, human suffering? Why is it theologically important to maintain the historical witness to God's impassibility, especially in the face of so much suffering in today's world?
www.modernreformation.org/mr97/julaug/mr9704impassibility.html
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