The Apathetic God: Exploring the Contemporary Relevance of Divine Impassibility

Daniel Castelo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1842275364 ISBN 13: 9781842275368

Publisher: Paternoster, 2009

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.

Review:

I highly recommend this book to scholar and pastor alike. Once you start it, you won't be able to put it down! --Frank D. Macchia, Vanguard University, California

This is an important work! --Stephen Long, Marquette University, Milwaukee

I warmly recommend this book --Dale Coulter, Regent University, Virginia Beach

About the Author:

Daniel Castelo is Associate Professor of Theology at Seattle Pacific University