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Divine impassibility: an essay in philosophical theological

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In this volume, Richard Creel sets forth a thesis that offers a third way to approach divine impassibility. Defining impassibility as imperviousness to causal influence from external factors, Creel sketches a path between Aquinas and Hartshorne, by asserting that once this definition is accepted, one must still distinguish the various respects in which God is or is not impassible. Virtually no one would dispute that the divine nature is impassible. God will never cease to be God, no matter what happens in creation. With respect to the divine knowledge and will, however, there are conflicting views. Creel claims that God's will is impassible because God knows everything that can be accomplished by divine power. Yet, unlike Aquinas, Creel believes that God has this knowledge in virtue of a 'plenum' of possibilities..

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230.01 CRE d

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Eugene : Wipf & Stock Publ.., 2005

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xi,238p.; 22 cm.

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English

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1-59752-273-2

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230.01

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CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY - PHILOSOPHY

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