Ebook: The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil
Author: Lyman Stanford M
- Tags: SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology--General, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE--Sociology--General, Ethics--History, Social sciences and ethics, Deadly sins, Ethics, History, Ethics -- History, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- General, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- General
- Series: Seven deadly sins
- Year: 1989
- Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
- City: Lanham
- Language: English
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Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; PREFACE TO REVISED AND EXPANDED EDITION; PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION; Sin and Sociology; ONE -- Sloth; ON THE MEANING OF SLOTH; SLOTH AND SIN: THE AMBIGUITIES OF ACEDIA; SLOTH: SIN OR DISEASE?; THE DRAMATIZATION OF SLOTH; SCENARIOS OF CULTURE AND SLOTH; POLITICS: APATHY AND AFFECTLESSNESS; SLOTH AND SURVIVAL: CHEKHOV'S DRAMATIZATION OF INERTIA; CONCLUSION; TWO -- Lust; LUST IN CHRISTIAN THOUGHT: AUGUSTINE, AQUINAS, LUTHER; THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF LUST; EXCURSUS: THE DRAMA OF SIN AND DYADIC WITHDRAWAL IN DANTE'S INFERNO.;The Seven Deadly Sins: Society and Evil in 1978 it was hailed by Alasdair MacIntyre as ""a book of absorbing interest and importance ... [that] places us all in his debt."" By Nelson Hart as ""a masterful and thought-provoking book ... [that] is the only scholarly treatment of sin that is so well-informed by the best of ancient through modern perspectives."" By James A. Aho as a work whose ""abstract hardly does justice to the scholarly and detailed analysis of sin."" And by Harry Cohen as a ""book ... [that] stands as a beautiful illustration of what.
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