Wiktionary Impassibility from Latin in , not , passibilis , able to suffer, experience emotion describes the theology theological doctrine that God does not experience pain or pleasure from the actions of another being. It has often been seen as a consequence of divine aseity , the idea that God is absolutely independent of any other being, i.e., in no way causally dependent. Being affected literally made to have a certain emotion, Affect psychology affect by the state or actions of another would seem to imply causal dependence. Some theological systems portray God as a being expressive of many or all emotion s. Other systems, mainly in Judaism and Islam, portray God as a being that does not experience suffering or any other emotion at all. However, in Christianity there is an ancient dispute about the impassibility of God see Nestorianism . Still, it is understood in all Abrahamic religions ... Protestantism , strongly asserts the impassibility of God, as well as his impeccability ... are similar in many respects in regard to divine impassibility. Biblical scholars do not take ... a scathing criticism of divine impassibility in his various theological works. Oord argues that God ... is immutable. Although there are differing opinions in Christian circles about the impassibility of God ... of modalism . Judaism Jews generally hold to the impassibility of God and do not believe that the Messiah ... religion is based on the notion of the absolute impassibility of God, an impassibility which is only ... , Holy Trinity and resurrection and God the Father because it is seen as an attack on divine impassibility ... lust fulness, Susano o for his intemperance, and Balder for his joyousness and calm. Impassibility in the Western ... of impassibility was developed by medieval theologians like Anselm of Canterbury Anselm and continues ... phil articles impassib.htm God Without Mood Swings Recovering the Doctrine of Divine Impassibility ... University of Notre Dame Press, 2000. Creel, Richard E. 1986 . Divine Impassibility . Cambridge, UK ... more details
Unreferenced auto yes date December 2009 Theology Proper is the sub discipline of Systematic Theology which deals specifically with the being , attributes and works of God. In a Christianity Christian setting, this study includes Trinitarianism Trinitarian , the Holy Spirit Pneumatology and the study of Jesus Christ Christology . The term Theology lit. God word is popularly described as talk about God or God talk, but is usually used in the generic sense to describe religious studies. Topics Pertaining to Theology Proper Apophatic Theology Attributes of God Cataphatic theology Cataphatic Theology Christology Divine simplicity Divine Simplicity Eternity Eternality Godhead Christianity God the Father Christianity God the Father Immutability theology Immutability Impassible Impassibility Kenosis Monotheism Omnipotence Omniscience Ontology Pneumatology Prescience Transcendentals The Transcendentals Trinity Trinitarian Theology Theodicy Theosis Category Christian theology Category Christian terms Christian theology stub es Teolog a propia pt Teologia pr pria ... more details
Refimprove date February 2008 Infobox settlement name Hikuai population total population as of 2006 coordinates region NZ subdivision type Country subdivision name New Zealand subdivision type1 Region subdivision name1 Waikato Region Waikato subdivision type2 District subdivision name2 Thames Coromandel District pushpin map North Island latd 37 latm 4 lats 25 latNS S longd 175 longm 46 longs 21 longEW E Hikuai is a small community on the Tairua River towards the base of the Coromandel Peninsula in the North Island of New Zealand . It lies 40 kilometres north of Waihi and 10 kilometres southwest of Tairua , close to the junction of New Zealand State Highway network State Highways 25 and 25A , the latter of which is a winding road cutting across the steep Coromandel Range of hills. It is a tourist hot spot in days such as New Zealand Labour Weekend, The Christmas Holidays and especially when Tairua and Pauanui are busy. It is prone to heavy precipitation and floods accelerated by the nearby Tairua River which occasionally causes impassibility. The cellphone and electricity coverage is patchy but is intact. It has a large colonial and gold mining history making it a special place to explore. Various adventure operators exist and they provide an interesting glance at history and lifestyle. The population of the Hikuai statistical district was 3,252 in the 2006 Census, an increase of 171 from 2001. ref NZ Quickstats 3533603 ref The statistical district covers the entire southern half of the Coromandel Peninsula apart from Thames, New Zealand Thames , Te Puru , Tairua and Whangamata , not just the Hikuai locality. ref cite web url http www.nowwhere.com.au StatsNZ Locator Default.aspx?txtTown Hikuai&NZSearch General title Map of Hikaui publisher Statistics New Zealand ref Education Hikuai School is a coeducational full primary years 1 8 school with a Socio Economic Decile decile rating of 9 and a roll of 81. ref cite web url http www.tki.org.nz e schools display school inf ... more details
Attributes of God Aseity from Latin a from and se self , plus wikt ity ity refers to the property by which a being exists in and of itself, from itself, or exists as so and such of and from itself. ref name new advent http www.newadvent.org cathen 01774b.htm ref The word is often used to refer to the Christian belief that God contains within himself the cause of himself, is the first cause, though many Jewish and Muslim theologians have also believed God to be independent in this way. ref name new advent Notions of aseity as the highest principle go back at least to Plato and have been in wide circulation since Augustine , though the use of the word aseity began only in the Middle Ages . ref name new advent Often, as a part of this belief God is said to be Immutability theology incapable of changing . ref name new advent Changing implies development. Since God was and is and is to be the Absolute Perfection, there is no further need to change. Many, Thomas Aquinas St. Thomas , for instance have also thought that aseity implies divine simplicity that God has no parts of any kind whether spatial, temporal, or abstract , since complexes depend on their individual parts, with none of which they are identical. ref Summa Theologica , I, Q. 3, Art. 7. ref A further implication often drawn among classical theists has been that God is without emotion or is impassibility impassible for, it is said, emotion implies standing as patient pass to some agent i.e., dependence. ref For an exposition of Augustine s theory of emotions, especially with respect to God s perfection, see Nicholas Wolterstorff s Suffering Love in Philosophy and the Christian Faith , ed. Thomas V. Morris Notre Dame, IN Notre Dame University Press, 1988 . ref This is so because although God has created everything, He is not in dependence on His creation. Philosophical considerations Whether or not this being should be described as God turns on whether the label Creator is a rigid designator of God. Given that ... more details
Cleanup date July 2010 refimprove date January 2011 In Christian theology , patripassianism is the view that God the Father suffers from Latin patri father and passio suffering . Its adherents believe that God the Father was incarnate and suffered on the cross and that whatever happened to the Son happened to the Father and so the Father co suffered with the human Jesus on the cross. This view is opposed to the classical theological doctrine of divine apathy . According to classical theology it is possible for Christ to suffer only in virtue of his human nature. The divine nature is incapable of suffering. Classical theology is heavily influenced by Greek metaphysics and especially Neoplatonism and Christianity Neo Platonic and Stoicism Stoic conceptions of God. As a result, there is considerable debate among Christian theologians as to how much of classical theology is actually required for Christian orthodoxy. The Early Christianity early church considered patripassianism to be heresy . Trinitarian Patripassianism, to those that adhere to a belief in the Trinity , is problematic because they maintain, according to Biblical references concerning Jesus Christ as speaking to God the Father, while he was on the cross, as proof that the two are separate. It is also problematic for any that hold to the impassibility and immutability of the divine, as it implies that God the Father can suffer. History Patripassionism began in the third century AD. Patripassionism was referred to as a belief ascribed to those following Sabellianism , after its founder Sabellius , especially by the chief opponent Tertullian . Sabellius, considered a founder of an early movement, was a priest who was excommunicated from the Church by Pope Callixtus I in 220 and lived in Rome . Sabellius advanced the doctrine of one God sometimes referred to as economic Trinity and he opposed the Orthodox Christianity Orthodox doctrine of the essential Trinity . Praxeus and Noetus were some major followers. ... more details
. ref http www.newadvent.org fathers 110111.htm Augustine, Confessions 9.7.9 ref Impassibility ... Impassibility , Pro Ecclesia Spring 2002 184 206. ref Impassable is from the Latin patior suffer ... the Incarnation and Pentecost. Neither impassibility nor immutability should be taken to imply we ... more details
American Theological Inquiry, 1 1 2008 6 10. Impassibility of God and Human Suffering, in New Dictionary ... and His Acts in History, in Divine Impassibility and the Mystery of Human Suffering, eds ... more details
impassibility God cannot be affected by what creatures do . ref God Who Risks , rev. ed., 197 ref Freewill theists do affirm weak impassibility God is not overcome by emotions as humans are apt to be and weak ... more details
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