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02908aam a22003858i 4500 001 61B64D7C335511EE8BFEB64C44ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230805010027 008 230127s2023 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2023003955 020 $a 1546001921 020 $a 9781546001928 035 $a (OCoLC)1350684659 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d TOH $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCF $d PCX $d JCX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 100 1 $a Opelt, Amanda Held, $e author. 245 10 $a Holy unhappiness : $b God, goodness, and the myth of the blessed life / $c Amanda Held Opelt. 250 $a First edition. 263 $a 2307 264 1 $a New York : $b Worthy, $c 2023. 300 $a 272 pages ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-240). 520 $a "American Christians have developed a long list of expectations about what the life with God will feel like. Many Christians rightly deny the Prosperity Gospel-the idea that God wants you to be healthy and wealthy- but instead embrace its more subtle spin-off, the Emotional Prosperity Gospel, or the belief that God wants you to always experience happiness and fulfillment. Our society has become increasingly averse to sadness and emotional discomfort. Too often, people of faith assume that difficult feelings are a result of either God's judgment or our own lack of spiritual maturity. Some even equate happiness with holiness. In Holy Unhappiness, Amanda Held Opelt, author of A Hole in the World, grapples with her own experience of disillusionment when life didn't go the way she expected. She examines some of the historic, religious, and cultural influences that led to the idolization of positive feelings and the marginalization of negative feelings. Unpacking nine elements of life that have been tainted by the message of the Emotional Prosperity Gospel - including work, marriage, parenting, calling, community, and church - she points to a new path forward, one that reimagines what the "blessed" life can be like if we release some of our expectations and seek God in places we never thought to look. While Opelt acknowledges the dignity of desiring happiness, she ultimately pleads for the normalization of sadness, anger, grief, disappointment, and other uncomfortable feelings as a part of the Christian experience, making a case that there is holiness to be found even in our unhappiness"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Hope. 650 0 $a Disillusion (Philosophy) 650 0 $a God. 650 7 $a RELIGION / Christian Theology / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a God. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00944037 650 7 $a Hope. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00960068 941 $a 3 952 $l TYPH572 $d 20230902014009.0 952 $l TCPG826 $d 20230902010540.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20230805010302.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=61B64D7C335511EE8BFEB64C44ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search