{"product_id":"9780991659920","title":"Confessing the Impassible God: The Biblical Classical \u0026 Confessional Doctrine of Divine Impassibility","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe book is structured as follows. The Introduction presses home the importance of the doctrine of divine impassibility. Readers will be challenged to recognize that tinkering with divine impassibility as classically understood has implications that always end up compromising other fundamental articles of the Christian faith. The main argument is contained in seven parts. Part I (chapters 1-2) addresses vital issues of prolegomena. Part II (chapters 3-7) covers the Old and New Testaments. Part III (chapters 8-9) surveys the history of the doctrine of divine impassibility. Part IV (chapters 10-12) offers a systematic-theological approach to the subject. Part V (chapter 13) offers an overview of the doctrine of divine impassibility as contained in the Second London Confession of Faith (1677\/89). Part VI (chapter 14) seeks to explicate the practical theology of divine impassibility. Part VII (chapter 15) offers closing comments and a list of affirmations and denials in light of the entire study. Additionally, we have included two appendices, containing book reviews of contemporary attempts to modify the classical doctrine of divine impassibility. We offer this book, not as the end of discussion on this vital issue, but as a continuation of an older discussion that has been largely lost in our day. . . . We are of the firm opinion that the methodological, hermeneutical, and theological shifts that took place after the ascendancy of the Enlightenment steered theology in the wrong direction. Paul Helm wrote the Foreword because we knew he would read carefully and provide a very informed and helpful perspective for prospective readers. It is our prayer that the following pages will contribute to fruitful thought and discussion concerning the doctrine of divine impassibility and other related doctrines of the Christian faith. the Editors, from the Preface\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher: RBAP\u003cbr\u003e\nType: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nISBN: 9780991659920\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\n\n\u003cp\u003e______________\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA spirited reclaiming of the doctrine of divine impassibility, this coherent, well-edited, multi-author project is unique in several commendable aspects. It is decisively Baptist, but advances its argument in ways that recent generations have stopped expecting from Baptist theologians. These authors are committed to the final authority of Scripture in doctrinal matters, but mastery of their tradition’s confessional resources gives them uncommon access to depths of theological understanding. In particular, they have chased the doctrine that God is “without passions” all the way down metaphysically, relating it meaningfully to the theology of the divine being as pure act, and steadfastly refusing mere voluntarism, the persistent Scotist reductionist temptation to make everything depend on God’s will rather than his nature. Evangelical projects of retrieval are becoming more common as theologians appropriate patristic and medieval resources. Confessing the Impassible God stands out for its commitment to a retrieval of the middle distance, the Baptist confessions of early modernity as the nearby trailhead to the great tradition of Christian theology. Good fences make good neighbors, and I think that, paradoxically, the decisively Baptist focus of this project is what will make it useful beyond its own Reformed Baptist confessional borders. Fred Sanders, Professor of Theology, Torrey Honors Institute, Biola University\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ed Ronald S Baines, Richard Barcellos","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40137845539008,"sku":"9780991659920","price":37.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0575\/0371\/1424\/products\/cig-ang.jpg?v=1624854271","url":"https:\/\/www.shalomchristianmedia.com\/products\/9780991659920","provider":"ShalomChristianMedia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}