It is often said that the God of classical theism - simple, immutable, impassible - cannot be the God who becomes incarnate, suffers and dies, and that Christology therefore requires a revised doctrine of God.

Steven J. Duby takes that claim seriously and answers it at length, working from the biblical material on the person of Christ and showing how it fits with, and in fact requires, the classical account. A substantial academic volume, and among the more important recent contributions to the subject.