Apathetic God - Softcover

Castelo, Daniel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842275364 ISBN 13: 9781842275368

Publisher: Paternoster Press, 2009

Synopsis

This work seeks to create a via media between the tradition of divine impassibility and the contemporary preference for divine passibility within formal theological reflection. Rather than dismissing divine impassibility as a Hellenized and antiquated notion, the author seeks to reconfigure how this axiom functioned for the early church as a way to complement and deepen the present tendency toward divine passibility. At stake in these discussions is not only the coherence of God-talk across time but also what Christians take to be their guiding vision of God's character and action in the world, a vision that inevitably determines the shape of Christian discipleship.

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About the Author

The question of God's relationship to evil is a long-running one in the history of Christianity, and the term often deployed for this task has been theodicy. The way theodicy has historically been pursued, however, has been problematic on a number of counts. Most significantly, these efforts have generally been insufficiently theological. This work hopes to subvert and reconfigure the theodical task in a way that can be accessible to nonspecialists. Overall, the book hopes to cast the "god" of theodicy as the triune God of Christian confession, a move that shapes and alters distinctly all that follows in what has traditionally been considered a philosophical matter.

Edition details

• Publisher: Paternoster Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1842275364
• ISBN 13: 9781842275368
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 172