| In this study, I explored the lived experience of being angry at God from an existential-phenomenological perspective. While there is a growing body of literature on spiritual conflict as it relates to psychological discourse, this literature is limited in its capacity to understand the experience as it is lived. Furthermore, theological approaches to understanding the experience of being angry at God gets closer to the experience itself, but only insofar as it is hoped to lead to spiritual growth for an individual. In this way, an existential-phenomenological approach allowed a richer understanding of the experience without positive or negative presuppositions which would have enframed the phenomenon. Five co-researchers were interviewed about their experience of being angry at God. Transcriptions of the interviews were analyzed in order to find a situated structure of the experience which can generalize it without losing individual differences. The implications for the larger psychological community were discussed in the end of the study. |
