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Suffering God (Paul Fiddes (1) Meaning of love of God (Augustine: 'the…
Suffering God
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Thomas Weinandy
Love
Human relations have a 'willingness to take action against evil... (to) restore the good that manifests most fully one's love
'to do away with sin and evil, and thus suffering, would not in any way do away with nor lessen love' (love does NOT entail suffering)
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All the facets of love are fully actualised in God eternally- he does not need to adapt to situations: personal
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God As God
The Trinity is 'eternally constituted in their own singular identity only in relation to one another
God has revealed Himself to be 'Wholly Other' (Isaiah 55) and 'Being Itself' = Pure Act/Perfect Goodness
If God was deprived, he would not be pure act and thus could not create because the Trinity would not be fully actualised so would now be in potency to obtaining/re-obtaining goodness they did not possess.
G. Grisez: If God is immutable it does not follow that he is 'standing still, fixed, inert or rigid'
M. Dodds in The Unchanging God of Love 'divine immutability... indicates the dynamic and boundless perfection of God'
The Impassible Suffers
Important not to undermine the real suffering of Jesus- Moltmann reduces it to a mythological 'expression' of what is happening transcendentally
Carrot example: Jesus does everything as a man, though the active subject is the Son of God
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If Jesus were experiencing suffering in his divine nature he would not really be experiencing human suffering
'those who advocate a suffering God...while with the best intentions, having locked suffering within God's nature, they have, in so doing, locked God out of human suffering'
What is suffering?
Wayne Hudson in Historicizing Suffering: suffering is a universal experience described as a negative basic feeling or emotion that involves a subjective character of unpleasantness, aversion, harm or threat of harm to body or mind
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