The remote God of the philosophers, lost in a transcendent apatheia, becomes intolerable.

Jews should cultivate an apatheia like God's, remaining impervious to scorn and insults.

He hated the old Greek idea of apatheia, which he found almost blasphemous: it presented God as remote, uncaring and selfish.

Like the God of Plato and Aristotle, Clement's God was characterised by his apatheia: he was utterly impassible, unable to suffer or change.

Like the Ismailis, Ibn al-Arabi stressed the pathos of God, which was in sharp contrast to the apatheia of the God of the philosophers.

Apatheia (Greek) Impassibility, serenity and invulnerability.