passible
/ˈpasɪb(ə)l
/adjective Christian Theology
Capable of feeling or suffering; susceptible to sensation or emotion: only the humanity of Jesus is regarded as passible...
- Those advocating a passible God, Weinandy claims, have ‘locked suffering within God's divine nature, [and] in so doing, locked God out of human suffering.’
- Do you allot the suffering to him alone, fending it off from God the Word to avoid God's being declared passible?
Derivatives
passibility
- Adams is not, however, inclined to rest her case for this point on divine passibility per se.
- The Stoics ruled out divine passibility because they regarded imperturbability as a virtue, and God must be the supreme example of it.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French, from late Latin passibilis, from Latin pass- 'suffered', from the verb pati.
Rhymes
- phallocrat
- phallocratic
- phallogocentric
- phallogocentrism
- phalloid
- phalloidin
- phalloin
- phallologocentric
- phallophoria
- phallophoric
- phallophoros
- phallophorus
- phalloplasty
- phallos
- phallotoxin
- phallus
- Phanar
- Phanariot
- phanatron
- phanerite
- phaneritic
- phanerocrystalline
- phanerogam
- Phanerogamia
- phanerogamic