[kosta50]

Good choice. One can usually find any answer in St. John Damascene's work. Philokalia is, of course, also full of topics involving passion and a dispassionate God—something that has been known to Christianity, both east and west, from the arliest days. Protestant reactions, on the other hand, only remind me how un-recognizable they are. An oxymoron, like domestic aliens.

[D-fendr]

St. John Damascene is my goto guy. If I had only one work of theology, his encyclopedia would be it.

I think we have a bit of kneejerk literalism from our Protestant friends on this one. Immutability of God is up there with the Trinity in "orthodox" Christianity, East and West and in between.

This is from a sermon in 1855, by Rev. C. H. Spurgeon, entitled "The Immutability of God."

"But God is perpetually the same. He is not composed of any substance or material, but is spirit—pure, essential, and ethereal spirit—and therefore he is immutable. He remains everlastingly the same. There are no furrows on his eternal brow. No age hath palsied him; no years have marked him with the mementoes of their flight; he sees ages pass, but with him it is ever now. He is the great I AM—the Great Unchangeable... He never has been changed in his essence, not even by his incarnation; he remains everlastingly, eternally, the one unchanging God, the Father of lights, with whom there is no variableness, neither the shadow of a change."