| What is another question asked about the nature of God? | Can God suffer? |
| What are the views on God being able to suffer? | Classical philosophy has tended to answer that God cannot suffer or die |
| Why is it viewed that God cannot suffer? | This is due to seeing God as omnipotent. Suffering and death happens to humans because of their weakness |
| What is the definition of divine immutablity? | means that God doesn't change over time |
| What is the definition of divine impassibility? | Means that God doesn't experience pain or suffering |
| What are scriptures in the Old Testament that show that God can feel something? | 1 Samuel 15:11 and Exodus 32:14 |
| 1 Samuel 15:11 | “I regret that I have made Saul king, because he has turned away from me and has not carried out my instructions.” |
| Exodus 32:14 | "Then the LORD relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened." |
| What do the passages in Samuel and Exodus show? | The inner emotions of God such as compassion and empathy never change, but outwardly he clearly shows emotion |
| What passages suggest a close relationship between God and humanity? | Gen 1:26 |
| Gen 1:26 | “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness," |
| What was the Moltmann's view of the suffering God? | That God does suffer with humanity, and that on the cross, God experienced the suffering and death. Jesus as God gave the final cry |
| What was the title of Moltmann's book? | The Crucified God |
| What was the final cry of Jesus? | "My God, My God, why has thou forsaken me?" |
| What is Moltmann's work? | It is a theodicy: a theology of God's righteousness in the face of suffering and evil. |
| Who was Moltmann writing in response to? | Protest atheism, which questioned the existence of a God with terrible things happening |
| What does Moltmann believe about the crucifixion? | That God the son suffered death on the cross, and God the father suffered the death of a son and due to the substantial presence in Jesus he is also God |
| What is moltmann’s book an attempt to answer? | Jesus’ cry on the cross |
| What does moltmann argue the cross means today? | The theology of the cross is the reverse side of his theology of hope. Christian hope is based on the resurrection, but it cannot be realistic or liberating hope “unless it apprehends the pain of the negative” |
| What is Christian identity? | “An act of identification with the crucified Christ”. In him God has identified himself with those abandoned by God. |
| What example does Moltmann use to show this? | God hang with the Jewish boy hung by the nazis in the gallows as God suffers with those who suffer |
| What does that mean for Christian identification with the crucified Christ? | Solidarity with the poor, the oppressed and the alien |
| What is the cross seen as by Moltmann? | A divine process whereby the death of the son and the grief of the father led to the outpouring of the Holy Spirit |
| What is Docetism? | A heresey, that Christ's body was not human but either a phantasm or of real but celestial substance, and that therefore his sufferings were only apparent. |
| What does docetism mean for the cross? | Jesus only seemed to die and resurrect, if he didn’t really die, then salvation as we know it is made void. |
