Christians strive to emulate the ‘perfect' life of Jesus, though they know that they will never truly achieve their goals. The idea of God is almost always boiled down to the "aspiration to participate in or be in harmony with perfection.1" But how does this perfection shape our conception of God? The nature of perfection is defined in theistic circles as love. There are two schools of thought addressed in the selection; traditional theism & process theism. Cobb & Griffin discuss the conflict between traditional theism and process theism's definition of divine love, the possibility of divine dependence, and the idea that God's love is more than a creative-impassive love.
Thomas Aquinas, a traditional theologian, makes a point that God-love is not like human-love. Human love is responsive in its nature: it is fueled by the object of that love. God-love is creative in nature, not fueled by the object, but merely by the creation. It is impassive, active goodwill devoid of......
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