caa a22 4500 386387249 CHVBK 20180307112102.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500001827 doi S0034412500001827 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500001827 Taliaferro Charles St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.A. The Passibility of God [Elektronische Daten] [Charles Taliaferro] John Dewey once said of philosophical problems that they are quite different from old soldiers. Not only do they never die, but they do not even fade away. Something similar might be said about the unfavourable Divine attributes of the 1950s and 60s, timelessness or eternity, necessary existence, foreknowledge of creaturely free choices, and immutability. All have contemporary defenders. Even the puzzling, traditional tenet that God is metaphysically simple now has formidable apologists. Perhaps the least popular of the traditional theistic canon, the most likely to fade away, is the tenet that God is impassible. The recent appearance of Richard Creel's Divine Impassibility has shown that even this least popular of attributes can be powerfully articulated and defended. Roughly, the impassibility thesis is the claim that God does not undergo sensory experience including suffering and pain, nor is God subject to corruption, substantial essential change or to external agency. Creel's defence of Divine impassibilism is certainly the most balanced and sophisticated in the current literature. Any argument for passibilism must take Creel's work seriously. I intend to do just that in the course of defending the thesis that the God of Christian theism is passible in an important respect. There are substantive moral and religious reasons to believe God suffers. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 217-224 0034-4125 25:2<217 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001827 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001827 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Taliaferro Charles St Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 217-224 0034-4125 25:2<217 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge