J. R. Lucas on God's Vulnerability

I came across this passage in the summer of 2022 while reading Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings, edited by Michael Peterson, William Hasker, Bruce Reichenbach, and David Basinger. The original source is J. R. Lucas's book The Future: An Essay on God, Temporality, and Truth.

Love is not only creative, but vulnerable. If I care for somebody I can be hurt. God, on the Christian view, is highly passible and was hurt. Instead of the impassive Buddha untroubled by the tribulations of mortal existence, the Christians see God on a cross: instead of the Aristotelian ideal of a self-sufficient God who devotes His time to enjoying the contemplation of His own excellence, the Christians worship a God who shared the human condition and came among us.