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#51 Pain and suffering Part 1

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The Impassable God

How do you do Christology and an impassable God? And this has been a huge topic of theological conversation over the last generation, particularly associated with Jurgen Moltzmann. So then you've got the question of a kind of a classical theology which says you can't have a God who suffers versus a Trinitarian classical Christa theology. What I've done is to put it back into its biblical context and suggest that urgently that's what we should do. That actually sounds more like the gospel as we read it in Matthew, Mark, Luke and John and Paul. We ourselves, Paul says, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, we groan within ourselves as

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