Look Back in Anger: Anger, Religion, and Morality through the Ages
Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Anger
Anger: Its Religious and Moral Significance by George Malcolm Stratton – A digitized version of the 1923 publication that debates the morally good, and morally questionable.
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Moving into modernity, the twentieth and twenty-first centuries experience unforeseen globalization and exposure to the moral rangers of various religions. For example, the first item in this section depicts the rising struggle western Christianity begins to have with different perceptions of morality. The question begins to be asked: how does anger fit into the human experience when there are not strict definitions of vices and virtues? When there is not a common acceptance of hierarchy?
Furthermore, we begin to see in these items a range of anger. Like the previous section, there are still emotional connections made between countries and politics, as we see in the second item on Job, Anger, and Modern America. But we also still see examples of anger as a complex, undefinable feature of humanity, both in the example of two tigers: anger tied to the sexual desire and adultery, and the place of anger in love and justice.
Putting anger into the Context of Communion. This sermon of Arthur J. Landwehr, II, a Methodist minister, leader, writer, and ecumenist, contextualizes the seventh chapter of the Old Testament book of Job, verses 1-7 and examines the similarities between the emotions and struggles found in Job and contemporary America. Although undated, the typewritten format reveals it is mid to late twentieth century.
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The Power of Anger in the Work of Love” is a manuscript from the year 2000 with handwritten annotations and edits, sermon of Rev. Dr. Marilyn Sewell, Unitarian Universalist minister, climate justice activist, and professional speaker. View full item in the Atla Digital Library.
Audio sermon recorded in 2008 from a chapel service of the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary on adultery and anger utilizing Matthew 5:21-30. The preacher speaks to the two “tigers” of the heart: anger, or fury, and sexual desire.
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Typewritten prayer by Lucy Rider Meyer. In this prayer she asks for protection, patience, and inspiration while also rejoicing in God’s goodness and gifts. Meyer played an important role in the revival of deaconesses in the United Methodist Church and was herself a prominent leader in Christian social services and religious education.
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