Why Did God Make Me this Way? Anger at God in the Context of Personal Transgressions

The present study focused on evaluating how anger at God may be related to the experience of personal moral transgression. People might view God as partly responsible for their transgressions if they attributed these transgressions to stable personal character traits that could be traced back to the...

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Authors: Grubbs, Joshua B. (Author) ; Exline, Julie J. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage Publishing 2014
In: Journal of psychology and theology
Year: 2014, Volume: 42, Issue: 4, Pages: 315-325
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