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Abstract
The conflict between the necessity of existence, the essential self-sufficiency and immutability of God with absolute knowledge and God's attention to his servants, and finally God's ...
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The conflict between the necessity of existence, the essential self-sufficiency and immutability of God with absolute knowledge and God's attention to his servants, and finally God's affection are among the issues that have been seriously considered by philosophers and theologians. Given that in contemporary philosophy of emotion, emotion as a cognitive process requires awareness and evaluation, its use is considered part of the existential perfection of beings and every conscious being is necessarily in interaction with other beings and is emotional. Classical theist emphasize that God is unaffected and therefore impassible. Passible God was considered a new orthodox theory in twentieth-century theology. Neoclassical theist believed that impassibility had no roots in the Bible. She saw a conflict between impassibility and divine love, because God's sympathy is a sign of his love for his servants.This article focuses on Christian theology and tries to evaluate and analyze the solution of these schools in overcoming this challenge by explaining and applying the theories of classical and neoclassical theists in the face of the mentioned conflict. It seems that according to the cognitive-value definition of emotions, the new analysis of science, time, absolute God and variability, one can approach an explanation of God in which the mentioned attributes are somehow compatible with each other.Key words: passibility. empathy. emotion. classical theist. neoclassical theist
