Passing on Impassibility & Graham Cole

Does anyone know exactly what Dr Graham Cole said at the Oak Hill School of Theology on grieving the spirit? Was it just "remeber God is passionate and has emotions and real relationships in which he is "affected" by us - even if they are not like human emotions, relationships or affecations - which I understand to be consistent with Orthodoxy? Or was Dr Cole trying to say something else? When do the tapes come out? Where none of the Doctrine Boys keeping an eye out?

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I enjoyed Rev'd Graham in chapel the other day. Being from Trinty Evangelical Divinty School, I was expecting an American Baptist not a Sydney Anglican who had transformed Ridley College, it seemed. Good on him for getting back to the class room.

I loved the line:

Or to put it in technical Aristotelian terminology: "You'd be nuts, mate!"

Might plagarise that one.

And was it something like:

And if you invited them to a dinner party or a barbie, which in Australia is the same thing...

I believe a "barbie" is a "barbeque", by the way.

I wondered whether what Rev'd Cole was saying about the relationship between evangelism and social action was really consistent if pressed?

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Dr Cole seems to have an egalatarian view of men and women in the church - women can preach to men etc. - but a hierarchical view of men and wonen in marriage, I understand? Some people thought his 7 points in favour of his view didn't work, but I've heard them described more as "considerations / ways into thinking about this / how would the landscape look with these features in place / are these part of a more plausible picture" than arguments - cumulative or otherwise. Does that help? I understand there was some heat, however much light?