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The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling. By Andrew D. Lester. Louisville, Ky.: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003. xi + 308 pp. $28.95 (paper).
The Angry Christian: A Theology for Care and Counseling is a thorough and engaging exploration of anger. In a theopolitical climate that is predicated on reactionism and reductionism, Lesters text is a scholarly reminder that we have a responsibility to attend to our emotive world. He begins by underscoring the essential nature of emotion as a crucial "aspect of the human condition" (p. 51) and argues against theological presuppositions that lead to the development of body/spirit dualism-"such a separation no longer makes theological sense" (p. 61). Notes Lester, "[e]motions such as grief, jov and sadness serve as sources of self-awareness and revelation about our relationship that can move us toward transformation" (p. 59). For Lester this is poignantly true when it comes to a negatively framed...