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    The Angry Christian: A Bible-based Strategy to Care for and Discipline a Valuable Emotion
    The Angry Christian: A Bible-based Strategy to Care for and Discipline a Valuable Emotion
    The Angry Christian: A Bible-based Strategy to Care for and Discipline a Valuable Emotion
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    The Angry Christian: A Bible-based Strategy to Care for and Discipline a Valuable Emotion

    By Bert Ghezzi and Brandon Vogt

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    A needed antidote for our culture of anger.
    As both mainstream and Christian culture become more polarized and terms like “age of anger” become commonplace, The Angry Christian meets a desperate need. Not self-help or psychology, this book looks first and foremost at the Bible for answers to the problems of anger.

    The Bible’s answer? Christians can be good and be angry at the same time. This is possible, and spiritually healthy, if you allow the Holy Spirit to strengthen you to get angry for the right reasons, and keep your anger under control. Ghezzi also shows you how to:

    Use anger constructively
    Use scripture to discipline anger
    Let anger help you overcome obstacles
    “The Angry Christian draws from scripture, life in the Holy Spirit, and the virtues to fashion a response to anger that can become a moment of grace and holiness.”
    —His Eminence Donald Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington

    “Whether anger is ally or adversary, righteous or right-filled depends upon its when, where, and why. Ghezzi masterfully reveals anger in all its faces, teaching how to harness it for maximum Christian good.”
    —Dr. Ray Guarendi, clinical psychologist and author of Fighting Mad

    “Anger is the mental virus of our age. It's an infection that becomes a poison that becomes an addiction, both bitter and delicious. Unless it's curbed, the habitual taste for conflict can break apart communities and families, and eat away every trace of our inner peace. In The Angry Christian, Bert Ghezzi explains the roots and nature of this emotional slavery with exceptional skill. Even more importantly, he shows us how we can be free of it."
    —Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap., Archbishop of Philadelphia

    “Bert Ghezzi is publishing an extremely important book for this particular time. Not only are a lot of people angrily reacting against other people and institutions in our society, but they evoke counter-reactions in ever more volatile forms. Bert addresses the reality of anger in human life, its usefulness and its need for control in practical ways that Christians can apply to themselves. This is a book which one can bring to prayer for meditation and from which one can gain much wisdom in a foolishly angry world.”
    —Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, EWTN TV and Radio Host

    "In these tumultuous times, many of us see something that makes us angry almost every time we log on to our computers. Bert has provided a much-needed resource that helps us understand how to channel those intense feelings into making the world a better place."
    —Jennifer Fulwiler, SiriusXM Radio Host and author of One Beautiful Dream

    "We’re taught in church to avoid our anger and the pain that goes with it, but in an era of political, social and religious anger, how do we channel it for good? As Ghezzi suggests in his book, anger can be a slow and steady work toward justice, and a useful tool for the hearts of Christians, if we keep it in check and understand how it works. This book is for the average human who struggles to know themselves and others better in all the emotions that come with relationship, and a guide to help us become more whole along the way."
    —Kaitlin Curtice, author of Glory Happening
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherParaclete Press
    Release dateMar 20, 2018
    ISBN9781640601277
    The Angry Christian: A Bible-based Strategy to Care for and Discipline a Valuable Emotion
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    Bert Ghezzi

    A popular Catholic author and speaker, Bert Ghezzi has written twenty-six books, including The Heart of Catholicism,Voices of the Saints, Mystics and Miracles, and Prayers to the Holy Spirit. Hundreds of his articles have appeared in the religious press. Ghezzi has been involved in religious education for more than forty years. He has served as a leader and teacher in several Catholic renewal movements and has spoken at numerous educational and renewal conferences throughout the United States and Canada. He appears frequently as a guest on EWTN, which also features his television series Signs of Our Times. Ghezzi is often interviewed on Catholic radio and his two-minute spots on saints play regularly on EWTN radio. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame, Ghezzi worked for seven years as a professor at Grand Valley State University in Michigan. He has served as a senior editor for five publishing companies since 1975 and now works as an acquisitions editor for Our Sunday Visitor’s book division. Bert and Mary Lou, his wife of fifty years, have seven children and sixteen grandchildren. The Ghezzis live in Winter Park, Florida. You can read Ghezzi’s blog at www.bertghezzi.com.

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      The Angry Christian - Bert Ghezzi

      INTRODUCTION

      A Destructive Emotion?

      IF WE HAD A METER that measures the degree of anger we are experiencing in our society, the needle would be quivering in the extreme red zone. We are all very, very angry. On the national scene we rage over matters that divide us—racism, immigration, politics, and more. And we feel imprisoned in anger over personal difficulties—failure, broken relationships, chronic illness, the death of a close relative, and so on. Anger also runs high among Christians. Many Catholics, for example, were so incensed over the priests’ child abuse scandal that they left the church. Others stayed, but, like my friend Sarah, they quietly fume. Some not so quietly. My concern for the many angry people I bump into prompted me to reissue this book. I am confident that it can help readers confront their anger and deal with it effectively.

      Let’s face it. Anger is dangerous, and we must not trifle with it. It is a powerful emotion that can either cause much harm or achieve much good. That either-or may surprise some readers whose only experience of anger has been bad. Most people who pick up a book like this don’t expect to find much good in anger, and usually seek relief from the ravages this violent feeling generates.

      But God gave us anger as a gift, not as a punishment. He made it a standard part of our human nature. Like any other valuable part—for example, hands, sight, desire—whether anger achieves good or evil depends on how we use it. The trouble is that anger often controls us, not vice versa.

      If we are seeking a secret that will eliminate our anger, we are pursuing a vain hope. Anger will surely be with us until we die. It may even go with us to heaven, where the Lord may allow us to share his anger at the evils that afflict his creation. But we can learn to increase good anger and to minimize the bad. That’s the Christian approach summed up by Paul when he admonished the Ephesians, Be angry, but do not sin (Eph. 4:26). If used constructively, anger can even help us live a more Christian

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