
Divine Impassibility
Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology
Does God Suffer?
"I was immediately repulsed by the process theologians who try to project human suffering onto the divinity," he says. "But at the same time, I wanted to almost dismiss or set aside these metaphysical distinctions that you just made" Pope Benedict points to Saint Bernard as an example of a non-Impassibilist God; in other words, 'God is not passable, but he is compassionate'
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