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词汇 impassible
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Definition of impassible in English:

impassible

adjective ɪmˈpasɪb(ə)lɪmˈpæsəbəl
Theology
  • 1Incapable of suffering or feeling pain.

    〔主神学〕不感苦痛的,不受苦难的

    belief in an impassible God

    对不受苦难的上帝的信仰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Further, if the suffering of God in Christ affected God's divine nature it would mean that it was someone other than the eternal impassible Creator who was experiencing human suffering.
    • On the other hand, the bodies of the saints will be impassible, because they will lack the capability of suffering; hence impassibility in them will be a gift, but not in children.
    • And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
    • Aquinas accepted Aristotle's view that God cannot change and is impassible.
    • So God, being that than which nothing greater can be thought, is wholly active; he is impassible.
    1. 1.1archaic Incapable of feeling or emotion.
      〔主神学〕不感苦痛的,不受苦难的

Derivatives

  • impassibility

  • noun ɪmpasɪˈbɪlɪtiɪmˌpæsəˈbɪlədi
    • True enough, the language of impassibility is deeply embedded in patristic theology going back to Ignatius of Antioch.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He defends impassibility as being uncontrolled by outside influences.
      • What cogent defence can be offered for the (entirely biblical) doctrine of God's impassibility, in the face of open theism and unorthodox views on the Trinity?
      • More materially, it is a guiding concern of his thinking to push out the envelope made by the teaching of divine impassibility.
      • He defends the Christological formulation of Chalcedon, but criticizes it on the point of divine impassibility.
  • impassibly

  • adverb
    • Thus the Alexandrian school of Christology could say, in the language of paradox, ‘he suffered impassibly,’ and Gregory of Nazian-zus, long before Luther, could speak of ‘a God hanging on a cross.’

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin impassibilis, from Latin in- 'not' + passibilis (see passible).

Definition of impassible in US English:

impassible

adjectiveɪmˈpæsəbəlimˈpasəbəl
Theology
  • Incapable of suffering or feeling pain.

    〔主神学〕不感苦痛的,不受苦难的

    belief in an impassible God

    对不受苦难的上帝的信仰。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Aquinas accepted Aristotle's view that God cannot change and is impassible.
    • And according to this He gave His body in an impassible and immortal condition to His disciples.
    • On the other hand, the bodies of the saints will be impassible, because they will lack the capability of suffering; hence impassibility in them will be a gift, but not in children.
    • So God, being that than which nothing greater can be thought, is wholly active; he is impassible.
    • Further, if the suffering of God in Christ affected God's divine nature it would mean that it was someone other than the eternal impassible Creator who was experiencing human suffering.

Origin

Middle English: via Old French from ecclesiastical Latin impassibilis, from Latin in- ‘not’ + passibilis (see passible).

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