A Theology of the Emotions
How should we feel? What should we anticipate is the redeemed, mature emotional life? I think these are worthwhile questions. They take us to a larger theological issue: what are the emotions? Go through a systematic theological text book and you won’t find “emotions” in the index. But our emotions are the stuff of everyday life. Without a basic theology for them our preaching and counseling can seem like we are focused only on the “not yet” and miss the “already.” In response, we say that Scripture speaks to all of life. Our task is to figure out how Scripture speaks deeply about and to our emotions. Any ideas?