Friday, October 26, 2012

How a Grammar Nerd Grows to Love God

Doing research for my Natural Theology paper, I started to ponder how we talk about God.  I am reading about divine impassibility: God's ability to stand unaffected by external influences.  "Impassible" and "passive" are, of course, etymologically related, and so I began to wonder if we can use passive verbs to talk about God.  Well, we do: "was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary... was crucified... was buried..."  All these verbs describe the Incarnation.  How beautiful is the divine humility of the Incarnation, that it allowed the All-Powerful God to take on passive verbs?

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