Papers by Curran D . Bishop
Christian attitudes towards expressing anger come in many varieties. A friend once told me that a... more Christian attitudes towards expressing anger come in many varieties. A friend once told me that a mentor of his who had been married for over forty years told him the secret was, "whenever you feel the aggression, vent it immediately! Don't let it build up." It seems that there are some obvious problems with this philosophy, depending on the intensity of one's definition of "aggression" and how one actually vents that aggression. It seems common in poptheology among some Christians to make a pendulum swing to the opposite extreme, however; some (perhaps unreflectively) seem to take the attitude that anger is beneath Christians who should accept all circumstances as the will of God. A more complex spin of this idea would be to say that certainly there is a place for anger, but it should always be excised in a calm outward demeanor, which restores inner peace. Here too, however, the nature of the reality of the human struggle with anger suggests that a less simplistic answer is needed.
An examination of Gregory of Nazianzus' "On his flight to Pontus"
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Papers by Curran D . Bishop