{"id":136,"date":"2010-11-19T18:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/?p=136"},"modified":"2010-11-19T18:42:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T23:42:20","slug":"seven-deadly-sins-and-formulations-of-virtue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/2010\/136\/orts\/seven-deadly-sins-and-formulations-of-virtue\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Deadly Sins and Formulations of Virtue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Seven Deadly Sins<\/strong><\/p>\n

Pride<\/strong> is excessive belief in one’s own abilities, that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity.<\/p>\n

Envy<\/strong> is the desire for others’ traits, status, abilities, or situation.<\/p>\n

Gluttony<\/strong> is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires.<\/p>\n

Lust<\/strong> is an inordinate craving for the pleasures of the body.<\/p>\n

Anger<\/strong> is manifested in the individual who spurns love and opts instead for fury. It is also known as Wrath.<\/p>\n

Greed<\/strong> is the desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. It is also called Avarice or Covetousness.<\/p>\n

Sloth<\/strong> is the avoidance of physical or spiritual work.<\/p>\n

Formulations of Virtue over the Ages<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Cardinal Virtues: prudence, temperance, courage, justice<\/strong>
\nClassical Greek philosophers considered the foremost virtues to be prudence, temperance, courage, and justice. Early Christian Church theologians adopted these virtues and considered them to be equally important to all people, whether they were Christian or not.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Theological Virtues: love, hope, faith <\/strong>
\nSt. Paul defined the three chief virtues as love, which was the essential nature of God, hope, and faith. Christian Church authorities called them the three theological virtues because they believed the virtues were not natural to man in his fallen state, but were conferred at Baptism.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Seven Contrary Virtues: humility, kindness, abstinence, chastity, patience, liberality, diligence <\/strong>
\nThe Contrary Virtues were derived from the Psychomachia (“Battle for the Soul”), an epic poem written by Prudentius (c. 410). Practicing these virtues is alledged to protect one against temptation toward the Seven Deadly Sins: humility against pride, kindness against envy, abstinence against gluttony, chastity against lust, patience against anger, liberality against greed, and diligence against sloth.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Seven Heavenly Virtues: faith, hope, charity, fortitude, justice,temperance, prudence <\/strong>
\nThe Heavenly Virtues combine the four Cardinal Virtues: prudence, temperance, fortitude — or courage, and justice, with a variation of the theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Seven Corporal Works of Mercy <\/strong>
\nContinuing the numerological mysticism of Seven, the Christian Church assembled a list of seven good works that was included in medieval catechisms. They are: feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, give shelter to strangers, clothe the naked, visit the sick, minister to prisoners, and bury the dead<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Seven Deadly Sins Pride is excessive belief in one’s own abilities, that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. It has been called the sin from which all others arise. Pride is also known as Vanity. Envy is the desire for others’ traits, status, abilities, or situation. Gluttony is an inordinate desire […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-orts","category-11-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":137,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/kuny.ca\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}