Kevin Vanhoozer on Rob Lister’s new book, God Is Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theology of Divine Emotion:
Rob Lister boldly goes where few evangelicals have gone before in this very helpful study of how best to make sense of what Scripture says about God’s emotions.
Lister does away with caricatures of the Patristic tradition as having sold out to Greek philosophy, surveys contemporary evangelical positions on divine impassibility, and provides a constructive hermeneutical method and theological model for doing justice both to the impassibilist tradition and to biblical language about divine emotions.
As G. K. Chesterton observes, ‘an inch is everything when you’re balancing,’ and to Lister’s credit he completes his routine without falling off the balance beam that is systematic theology.
You can read a sample of chapter 7 here: “Impassible and Impassioned: Toward a Theological Hermeneutic.”
