The Coming of the Impassible God: Tracing a Dilemma in Christian Theology / / Joseph M. Hallman.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Hallman, Joseph M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives on Philosophy and Religious Thought
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; ABBREVIATIONS --; 1. THE BACKGROUND, MODERN AND ANCIENT --; 2. ALEXANDRIANS, APOLOGISTS, AND GREGORY THE WONDERWORKER --; 3. TERTULLIAN AND HIS HEIRS --; 4. ARIANS AND ORTHODOX: THE LOGOS SUFFERS BUT GOD DOES NOT --; 5. THE LATINS: HILARY AND AUGUSTINE --; 6. CYRIL AND NESTORIUS --; 7. THEODORET AND THE ERANISTES --; 8. SEVERUS OF ANTIOCH AND PHILOXENUS OF MABBUG --; 9. THE CHRISTOLOGICAL SOLUTION: LEONTIUS OF JERUSALEM AND MAXIMUS THE CONFESSOR --; CONCLUSION --; BIBLIOGRAPHY
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463213992; 9783111024141; 9783110663037; 9783110716849
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463213992
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Joseph M. Hallman.

This book describes the development of the Christian understanding of God from the second to the eighth century as witnessed by major theologians who gradually realized that the Incarnate Word made flesh was not the God of the philosophers. They helped construct the great dogmas of the Christological councils. Beginning with the Apologists and ending with Maximus Confessor, the theological tradition overcame the notion of impassible deity in favor of the humble God of Christian faith, the Word made flesh.