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Divine Pain as a Missing Piece to the Structure of God’s Holy Love: A Theological Analysis of Forsyth’s Cruciality of the Cross Cover

Divine Pain as a Missing Piece to the Structure of God’s Holy Love: A Theological Analysis of Forsyth’s Cruciality of the Cross

By: Zhiqiu Xu  
Open Access
|Dec 2025

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/perc-2025-0024 | Journal eISSN: 2284-7308 | Journal ISSN: 1224-984X
Language: English
Page range: 83 - 101
Published on: Dec 15, 2025
Published by: Emanuel University Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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