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Western Christians are generally skittish about happiness, observes Ellen Charry. They live in the hope of heaven but are somewhat nervous about experiencing too much joy this side of paradise. Charry’s God and the Art of Happiness questions this way of thinking, reviewing the history of the theological conversation about happiness and offering a constructive proposal for considering it anew. ...

the wisdom of divine love, and concludes with examples of what that looks like in practice. Part I, in six chapters, recovers the historical trajectory of the Western theological discussion of happiness. It begins with a review of ancient moral philosophy that is central to the theological tradition and then examines four Western theologians between the fourth and eighteenth centuries: Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, and the Anglican divine Joseph Butler, pausing between Aquinas and Butler to account
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