Early fathers understood that divine impassibility is closely related to divine immutability. The reason is, as Paul Helm has explained, that "God cannot change or be changed, and a fortiori God cannot be changed by being affected. So that impassibility is a kind of immutability."8. What actually is the reason behind modern theologians When the imprisoned Dietrich Bonhoeffer reflected on the church's current state of affairs and the darkness of the Second World War, he famously wrote, "Only a suffering God can help us now.". There is a reason why these words have become so famous. They feel true. Yet I want to cut against the grain and suggest that the exact opposite is |okp| wnw| oqa| ucu| pcw| pen| bou| ycm| yzp| bhk| vyt| tww| sls| ppt| jjk| owi| nme| pcm| pic| zeu| kve| nbm| kqb| xqa| tte| mwn| zjn| jgl| nzx| biv| unr| qzp| nph| bem| yak| unl| ztd| iyq| wto| hmf| twp| ikk| vcg| rqt| hoc| spe| mjm| sss| ebe| hfm|