Untangle Your Emotions by Jennie Allen
Week 12: Chapter 11 — God Feels Too
Read Chapter 11 of Untangle Your Emotions. Key passages: Zephaniah 3:17; Psalm 103:8; John 3:16; Romans 8:26.
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The deepest foundation for everything Jennie has argued rests here: we were made emotional beings because we were made in the image of an emotional God.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Jennie grounds the entire case for emotional engagement in the doctrine of the imago Dei — we are made in the image of a God who grieves, delights, is jealous, and loves. How does this theological anchor change the stakes of the conversation? If God feels, what does it say about our feelings when we suppress them?
2.She addresses the theological tension around divine impassibility — the classical doctrine that God does not suffer in the way humans do. Without resolving every nuance, she points to the overwhelming biblical testimony of God's emotional engagement with His creation. How do you hold the truth that God is unchanging and sovereign alongside the truth that He grieves over sin and rejoices over the redeemed?
3.Jennie draws attention to Zephaniah 3:17 — "He will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you with his love; he will exult over you with loud singing." What is it like to sit with the image of God singing over you with joy? Is that easy or difficult to receive? Why?
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