Term
immutability
The attribute of God being not subject to change, death, or moral change, affirming that the Word remained God during the incarnation.
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Definition
God is not subject to the limitations of all created things: coming into being and going out of being, death, moral change. Often when the early church asserted that God is immutable, it meant that the Word in the incarnation did not cease to be God in order to become a human being, necessarily subject to mutability and death.
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Sources
- 1.Alan Richardson and John Bowden The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983). 288Original citation: Richardson, Alan, and John Bowden. The Westminster Dictionary of Christian Theology. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1983, 288.
Last revised August 14, 2026