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An Application of Divine Passibility: The Overcoming of Our Suffering in the Fellowship of Divine and Human Suffering

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One of the soul-searching questions in our generation is much more than mere intellectual curiostiy about the understanding of divine passibility. A meaningful question for suffering humanity in our time may have to do with our honest attempt to relate the concept of divine passibility to our existential situation. Let us, therefore, examine the relevance of divine passibility to the problem of human suffering.

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Lee, J.Y. (1974). An Application of Divine Passibility: The Overcoming of Our Suffering in the Fellowship of Divine and Human Suffering. In: God Suffers for Us. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-2048-0_5

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