 For theologians and Christian thinkers, the New Testament, read against the background of the Hebrew Bible, is in some sense authoritative. So it is the place to begin a discussion of emotions in the Christian tradition. The New Testament features, in varying degrees of prominence, a number of attitudinal phenomena that in modern parlance would be called emotions and the practices in which emotions are expressed: joy and rejoicing, gratitude and thanksgiving, remorse (grief) or regret and repentance, compassion, anger, fear, sorrow, envy, pride, shame, contempt, and others. Instances of these attitudinal phenomena vary in how theology-laden they are, and in this sense vary as to whether they count as “religious” emotions.