Rebecca DeYoung — What To Do When We’re Angry
On episode 299 of Life With God (recorded live at the RēGathering conference), professor and author Rebecca DeYoung talks with Nathan about what to do when we feel angry.
Show Notes
Resources by Rebecca DeYoung
- Article: “How to Practice Hope”
- Essay: “Why Are You Angry?”
- Talk: “The Seven Deadly Sins: Wrath”
- Scholarly publications: Available online here
Other related resources recommended by Rebecca
- “Praying in the Dark” by J. Todd Billings — on lament, protest, and compassionate witness as ways to express our emotions without spiraling into despair.
- Listen to an interview with Charlotte vanOyen Witvliet (a Christian psychologist and friend of Rebecca DeYoung) on moving forward in forgiveness.
- Aquinas on the vice of wrath
- Garret Keizer, The Enigma of Anger: Essays on a Sometimes Deadly Sin
- Josef Pieper, “The Power of Wrath” in The Four Cardinal Virtues (Notre Dame Press), 193 – 197.
- Robert C. Roberts, “Peace” in Spiritual emotions: a psychology of Christian virtues (Eerdmans), 165 – 178.
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Rebecca DeYoung
Rebecca DeYoung (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is a professor of philosophy at Calvin University, where she has taught since 1998. Her work focuses on the seven deadly sins and the virtues in Thomas Aquinas’s work, as well as normative ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy. She is the author of Glittering Vices (Brazos, 2009, 2nd edition 2020), Vainglory (Eerdmans 2014), Aquinas’s Ethics (University of Notre Dame, 2009) and other essays on virtues and vices. Rebecca speaks widely and serves as a Senior Fellow of the Martin Institute. She and her husband Scot live in Grand Rapids, Michigan. They have four adult children.
Calvin University Faculty webpage
Scholarly publications are listed and downloadable here.
Nathan Foster
Nathan Foster is an author and host of Life With God, a Renovaré Podcast. Formerly, he was an Associate Professor of social work and served as the Andrews Chair in Spiritual Formation at Spring Arbor University. He was also a licensed clinical social worker and certified addictions counselor. Nathan has published two books, including The Making of an Ordinary Saint: My Journey from Frustration to Joy with the Spiritual Disciplines.