Agapic Anger

Auteur

Jan R. Schnell is a religious ethicist, liturgical theologian, and pastor. Schnell is also an assistant professor of liturgics at Wartburg Theological Seminary, where she teaches preaching for the Association of Chicago Theological Schools' doctor in ministry program. She studies how women community organizers use anger to bring about positive social transformation. Schnell and her family live on an acreage that depends on solar energy, where they steward land recovering its natural prairie. They share interests in music, reading, theater, and playing outdoors.

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Christian culture often treats anger as problematic, conditioning women and gender-diverse people to act in ways that make others feel secure. If these groups do display anger, only constricted expressions like sadness seem acceptable. Jan R. Schnell argues that communities benefit when people fully explore anger as a vital part of vocation.