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apatheia

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Subject Religion » Christianity

DOI: 10.1111/b.9780631232032.2001.x


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(1) Impassibility as divine attribute, an attribute of Christ in his divinity. (2) Freedom from dominance by the passions. In this sense, but not in the sense of impassibility, apatheia is an attribute of Christ in his humanity. eastern christian liturgical texts are rich with references to the apatheia Christ's passion grants. (3) As a technical term of spiritual psychology, apatheia designates a state of habitual self-control and tranquillity undisturbed by the onslaught of the passions: the passions are not dead, but as prayer and asceticism promote progressive deification , resistance to temptation and to disturbance by the passions grows. Apatheia is not a state of unfeeling insensibility but rather a firm rooting in God attained as the culminating point of repentance. ... log in or subscribe to read full text

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