Bóg niezdolny do gniewu. Obrona apathei Boga w teologii aleksandryjskiej: Filon, Klemens i Orygenes
A God Incapable of Anger. Defending the Apatheia of God in Alexandrian Theology: Philo, Clement and Origen

Summary/Abstract: Ancient Alexandria was the locus of an encounter between Greek philosophy and the Bible. It is where the Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, the Septuagint, came into being, and also there that the first philosophical commentaries on the Greek Pentateuch appeared. The trained philosophers who examined this inspired text came across many anthropomorphic representations of God that they could not accept – precisely because of their education and their philosophical culture, which they valued as much as their faith. Yet insisting, for example, that God cannot have a body because He is transcendent, or that God cannot be angry because He is impassible, does nothing to explain why anthropomorphism occurs in the Bible. This article explores how the Alexandrian thinkers of the first three centuries CE, whether Jewish or Christian, explained the appearance of anthropomorphic representations of God in the sacred text, and the important functions they attributed to these controversial images.

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