 In the first section of this article, we have assumed diversity among the types of emotion that might be called “religious.” Joy, compassion, remorse, and so forth, are different emotion types. The unity we find among them, in contradistinction from “secular” emotions, is their theological reference or “content.” Insofar as they are distinctively Christian, they all draw on Christian doctrine. Yet they pick from that body of doctrine different bits and deploy them to different purposes. The terms in which the believer construes the object of compassion will differ from the terms in which, when she feels gratitude to God, she construes herself, a benefit, and God. Indeed, what differentiates one emotion type from another seems to be the terms of the construal.