Postmodernism and the unchangeability of God

Postmodern thought that emphasises the changing and constructive element in all our concepts and conceptions, also seems to challenge the very idea of the unchangeability of God. How can we think of God as unchangeable, when the means by which we do this seem to change? After presenting some main traits of postmodern thought relevant for this problem, the arguments in the article takes a twofold line: first, thinking of God requires that we accept the internal logic of the concept, that do not allow us to think God in any way whatsoever. Second, it is also argued that thinking about God is based in the conceptions of the (religious) life‐world and that these conceptions exist in a dialectic relationship with the concepts and informs and directs the way they can be developed. On this basis, the idea of God's unchangeability seems to be in consonance with the idea of God's otherness, as opposite to everything that can be experienced in the world (as changeable). The outcome of this is that postmodern though allows of a positive affirmation of unchangeability as a basic element in Christian thinking about God.