Abstract
As we have already stated, our study is based on the conviction that God is love, which is fundamental to the divine pathos. Thus, His love for the world implies that He is passionately involved in the world. The participation of this divine pathos in our life, the empathy of God, becomes a criterion for our understanding of divine passibility. This participation of divine pathos in our life is the very expression of divine nature. If divine nature is Agape, the empathy of God is a way of Agape. Thus Agape becomes the basis of a criterion, a guiding norm of our theological interpretation, for the ascription of passibility to the divine.
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- Christian Faith
- Loving Relationship
- Divine Nature
- Divine Attribute
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Lee, J.Y. (1974). A Criterion for the Ascription of Divine Passibility: The Empathy of God. In: God Suffers for Us. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2048-0_2
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