Faith and the Emotions: A Theological and Psychological Inquiry into the Human Heart

“To refuse all pleasures against reason out of dislike for them is to be dour like a boor.” — St. Thomas Aquinas

Integrating our emotions is one of life’s most difficult challenges. Although feelings are natural and a gift from God, certain life experiences—and our inward reactions to them—can sometimes generate disordered responses. Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P., the theologian to the Papal Household, equips you to develop a healthy functioning of your emotions through a deeper encounter with God.

Through the advice of St. Thomas Aquinas and other great spiritual masters, as well as leading Christian psychologists, Fr. Giertych names and explains the reality of emotions to help form young adults to grow in virtue and develop mature identities, free of painful anxieties.

God wants us to be healed and freed from emotional entanglements, to be true carriers of His love. Wholeness is possible, and thes