passibility

pas·si·ble

 (păs′ə-bəl)
adj.
Capable of feeling or suffering; sensitive: a passible type of personality.
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin passibilis, from Latin passus, past participle of patī, to suffer; see pē(i)- in Indo-European roots.]
pas′si·bil′i·ty n.
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(8) Gregory Thaumaturgus, "To Theopompus, on the Impassibility and Passibility of God," in The Fathers of the Church, vol.
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This raises intense debate about the passibility of God that falls outside the scope of this article.
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Lieb's appropriate label for such language is theopatheia, "a new form of passibility" (146).
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In so doing it posited no questions about the suffering and passibility of God.
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