Talk:Impassibility
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I'm not sure how to economically discuss the subtleties of the doctrine of divine impassibility. It's a notoriously convoluted argument, that goes back and forth between God's intrinsic nature or essence (ad intra) and his voluntary acts (ad extra), His transcendence and His immanence, eternity and free act. Anyway, the process by which Christian views of divine impassibility were developed is quite a bit more sophisticated and elaborate than the article presently depicts; and, what it implies in Christian theology is certainly not what the article concludes. However, it's not "wrong" (just unsympathetic), so I'm inclined to leave it as it is, until a lot more of these details can be added. Mkmcconn 05:29 28 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I agree and hope someone can flesh out the Christian view. I also wonder if someone knows enough about Heschel's discussions of the Jewish notion of God as anthropopathic. Slrubenstein
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- If someone thought he knew enough, why did he ask for the article to be checked? Jacquerie27 11:21 29 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I do not know what you are talking about. In English, we use the word "someone" to refer to an unspecified person. I am not sure who among the Wikipedia contributors knows enough to introduce Heschel, but I have no reason to believe that whoever it is, he or she "asked the article to be checked." Did you think "someone" refered to you? It did not, and I suggest you not assume that all comments on a talk page are about you. It is not about you -- or me. It is about the article, which belongs to no one and everyone. (Including someone, whoever she or he is!) Slrubenstein
- No, in English we generally use "anyone" in that context: "I also wonder if anyone knows enough about..." "Someone" is ambiguous: "Someone in the White House doesn't know what he's doing" = "GWB doesn't know what he's doing". You've already told me I don't know much about religious scholarship (which I don't), so I assumed you were doing it again. Jacquerie27 12:49 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
Well, all I can say is that in this case, that was not my intention. After all, I was admitting my own ignorance as well, in the above remark. Slrubenstein
than I did: I'd never even heard of Heschel or seen the word anthropopathy before. You also know considerably more about genetics than I do, which is why I'm puzzled that you take post-structuralism and anthropology seriously. Jacquerie27 17:22 10 Jul 2003 (UTC)
