Roberto Sirvent is Associate Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Divine Impassibility3 Imitatio Dei and Reasoning about God's Moral Nature4 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life5 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life: An Old Testament Perspective6 The Immorality of ImpassibilityConclusion: Thinking Morally about TheologyBibliographyIndex

Roberto Sirvent argues powerfully that the call to imitate God in our actions is incompatible with the idea of divine impassibility found in much Christian philosophy. By exploring the biblical roots of imitatio Dei he demonstrates that it implies a God who can suffer with his creation, as a number of modern theologians have argued. An impassible God is not worth imitating! An important contribution to an ongoing debate, unusual in combining both doctrinal and biblical expertise in a creative way.

Roberto Sirvent is Associate Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Divine Impassibility3 Imitatio Dei and Reasoning about God's Moral Nature4 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life5 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life: An Old Testament Perspective6 The Immorality of ImpassibilityConclusion: Thinking Morally about TheologyBibliographyIndex

Roberto Sirvent argues powerfully that the call to imitate God in our actions is incompatible with the idea of divine impassibility found in much Christian philosophy. By exploring the biblical roots of imitatio Dei he demonstrates that it implies a God who can suffer with his creation, as a number of modern theologians have argued. An impassible God is not worth imitating! An important contribution to an ongoing debate, unusual in combining both doctrinal and biblical expertise in a creative way.

Roberto Sirvent is Associate Professor of Political and Social Ethics at Hope International University in Fullerton, California.

• Acknowledgments1 Introduction2 Divine Impassibility3 Imitatio Dei and Reasoning about God's Moral Nature4 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life5 Emotional Vulnerability in the Moral Life: An Old Testament Perspective6 The Immorality of ImpassibilityConclusion: Thinking Morally about TheologyBibliographyIndex

Roberto Sirvent argues powerfully that the call to imitate God in our actions is incompatible with the idea of divine impassibility found in much Christian philosophy. By exploring the biblical roots of imitatio Dei he demonstrates that it implies a God who can suffer with his creation, as a number of modern theologians have argued. An impassible God is not worth imitating! An important contribution to an ongoing debate, unusual in combining both doctrinal and biblical expertise in a creative way.