Emotional Holiness - by Austin G Murphy (Paperback)

About the Book

Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB, shows how the emotions are to be shaped and trained so that they work with your pursuit of all that is good and avoidance of what is evil. Getting the emotions to work with the mind's pursuit of God and the things of God is especially important to help you persevere in your God-given vocation.

Book Synopsis

To become a better Christian, you need to form your emotions aright. It might also surprise you to know that Catholic teaching doesn't disparage the emotions. Rather, the traditional Catholic view -- supported by giants in the Catholic tradition such as Saint Augustine, Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, and Saint Thomas Aquinas -- is that ongoing conversion does not mean suppressing, ignoring, or eradicating the emotions, but reforming them.

In Emotional Holiness, Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB, shows how the emotions are to be shaped and trained so that they work with your pursuit of all that is good and avoidance of what is evil. Getting the emotions to work with the mind's pursuit of God and the things of God is especially important to help you persevere in your God-given vocation.

Emotions can be unwieldy things, but with perseverance and the help of God's grace, they can be trained to help you to do what is right and avoid what is wrong.

Review Quotes

"The emotions, while in and of themselves morally neutral, play a vital role in what it means to be human. Emotions push and pull us in different directions. When our emotions are ordered correctly, they move us to act toward the good. But we are fallen creatures, and our emotions are not always ordered correctly. The emotions need conversion for us to live lives of human flourishing and holiness. Abbot Austin Murphy treats the emotions seriously and draws upon the wisdom of the Catholic intellectual tradition, as well as his own experience. He shows us how our emotions can be converted and transformed so that our actions more easily move us toward the true, the good, and the beautiful -- and God's divine plan for our lives." -- Most Rev. James D. Conley, DD, STL, Bishop of Lincoln