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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 Bible provides direction for—but does not formulate—a doctrine of happiness that theologians worked from. Rather, they integrated classical moral philosophy with Christian doctrine and Scripture. Part I of this work recovers the main trajectory of the history that authorizes rethinking a Christian doctrine of happiness. Saint Augustine of Hippo (354–430) was the first major Christian thinker to reflect on happiness. Although he quotes Scripture and
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