Divine Impassibility

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dynamism, the absolutely complete and replete generation of the Son and procession of the Spirit from the Father, the infinite drama of God’s joyous act of self-outpouring - which is his being as God. Within the plenitude of this motion, no contrary motion can fabricate an interval of negation, because it is the infinite possibility of every creaturely motion or act;no pathos is possible for God because a pathos is,by definition, a finite instance of change visited upon a passive subject, actualizing some potential, whereas God’s love is pure positivity and pure activity. His love is an infinite peace and so needs no violence to shape it, no death over which to triumph: if it did, it would never be ontological peace but only metaphysical armistice,God is Divinely Mercyful.