Theologians like Augustine are thinking with Scripture when they affirm divine immutability and its close cousin, impassibility (not being subject to the passions or suffering). Augustine does not think that God has emotions that “disturb the mind,” but he wants nothing to do with a cold, hard impassibility; if impassibility “is to be defined as a condition such that the mind cannot be touched by any emotion whatsoever, who would not judge such insensitivity to be the worst of all vices?”
