The God of love: Star Trek and the impossibility of impassibility Mark Baddeley

I look forward to reading the next two posts. However, turning to important matters, you wrote, “The original series had Dr Spock…” My misspent youth (in front of the TV) requires that I point out that Dr Spock is quite different to Mr Spock, and I don’t think the former ever appeared in Star Trek!

Mark,

Thanks for this post (and thanks in advance for the coming ones!).

I’ve recently been reading through Weinandy’s work on impassibility and found it really helpful.  To my mind, it seems like classical theology has fallen on hard times in many quarters!

Could you point me to some other good things to read on impassibility (Muller’s essay on the classical notions of impassibility is the one of the others I’ve read also)?

Thanks!
Mark Earngey

Mark Baddeley31/03/2010 04:51 PM

Martin Shields,

Heh, Dr Spock was an unfortunate expression of my foible with constantly getting names wrong.

Although I think Dr Spock did appear in an episode of the short lived season of classic Star Trek which featured a guest star each episode.  From memory he appeared in the episode “Spock Squared”, playing himself - having been cryogenically frozen and thawed out by the crew of the Enterprise.  He then saved the ship from a space-time anamoly by helping it deal with the problems arising from poor potty training in its infancy.

Mark Earngey,

I quite agree about the fortunes of classical theism.  Like a lot of areas of theology, people want to claim to be ‘orthodox’ while rejecting fundamental components of classical theology.

I’m not sure if I can point you to much beyond what you have written at this point (except inasmuch as the next two posts will highlight Irenaeus and Athanasius as examples)

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