Why a Biblical Understanding of Emotions Is Particularly Relevant in Today’s Biblical Counseling Climate
Ed Welch has a new booklet releasing soon with New Growth Press, Fear Is Not Sin: It Is a Call to Action. The title of the book has caused significant reaction in some quarters of the modern nouthetic biblical counseling movement.
One nouthetic biblical counselor has responded with numerous tweets on X challenging the premise of Dr. Welch’s book, including opining that:
“The majority of fear is a lack of faith… and therefore sin.”
Another biblical counselor picked up on this theme of the primacy of the sinfulness of emotions, transitioned from fear to anger. He said:
“Paul seems to assume that most of our anger is sinful.”
“We know inherently that most of our anger needs to go.”
It seems that emotions are a very emotional topic in our biblical counseling world!
We need a biblical theology of the beauty of emotions.
Biblical Counseling, Emotions, and “Theological Anthropology”
One of the foundations of biblical counseling is that we are theologically-saturated. This includes applying theological anthropology to our counseling.
What is “theological anthropology”? Don’t get hung-up on this technical term. Let’s start small and grow from
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