Emotions in the Christian Tradition (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

Perhaps the most prominent of these attitudinal phenomena is joy ( chairein , chara , and to a much lesser extent agalliasthai , agalliasis ). It is especially prominent in the writings of the apostle Paul, who includes joy in his list of the “fruit of the [Holy] Spirit” in Galatians 5:22–3. The idea seems to be that when joy is a fruit of the Spir... See more