The Beauty of the Impassible God (Or, Is God an Emotional Teenager?)

January 15th, 2014 | 7 min read

There are few doctrines more maligned or misunderstood than that of the impassibility of God—the idea that God cannot be made to suffer change from without or be overcome with passions.

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Derek Rishmawy

Derek Rishmawy (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is the RUF campus minister at the University of California-Irvine. He contributes to Mere Orthodoxy, Christianity Today, and The Gospel Coalition, and writes at his own blog, Reformedish. He also co-hosts Mere Fidelity and is host of the “What Christians Believe’ Podcast at byFaith. You can follow him on Twitter @dzrishmawy.

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The Beauty of the Impassible God (Or, Is God an Emotional Teenager?)

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