Abstract
Comparing Jacques Maritain and Hans Urs von Balthasar on God’s relation to evil from the perspective of divine impassibility, I argue that Maritain’s usage of metaphorical analogy is more coherent than Balthasar’s theory of trinitarian ur-kenosis precisely because of his understanding of divine permission, according to which God merely ‘suffers’ the creature’s free initiative of moral evil. It is therefore unclear why one must affirm an original analogue of creaturely suffering that is constitutive of God’s immanent identity rather than, simply, the free kenotic tendency of the divine Son to incarnate the affectivity common to the three divine persons.
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