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The seven "deadly sins" are not to be found in scripture as such, but they have been a staple of Christian preaching since the early church. Ken Bazyn's book is more indebted to literature than to personal experience, ethics, or contemporary psychology. Drawing upon reading from a wide variety of disciplines, Bazyn offers a "thick description" of each of these "root" sins, setting them in a broad temporal, cultural, and human context. The references range from Madame Bovary to Evagrius Ponticus, Jay Gatsby to Pascal, Francois Truffaut to Francis of Assisi, testifying to the perennial nature of the temptation to pride or anger, gluttony or sloth. We succumb to them over and over partly, says the author quoting Jorge Luis Borges, because "our minds are porous with forgetfulness." Without ever moralizing, by means of anecdote and story, the book provides a serious, but often amusing, account of the dark side of the human comedy
Contents
1. Everyman's Dilemma 2. Guilt Unraveled 3. PrideThe Faultfinder 5. Envy: The Secret Sin 6. The overzealous Eglistarian, or Leveller 7. An Antidote to Anger 8. Violence Begets More Violence 9. Avarice: The Gleaming Deception 10. The Workaholic 11. Lust: From Attraction to Commitment 12. The Hedonist or Aesthete 13. Gluttony, or the Strong Craving 14. The Faster and Various Imitators 15. Sloth, or Don't Lose Heart 16. The Despondent 17. St Satan Pray for Me 18. Flaming Love
