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Back to Virtue: Traditional Moral Wisdom for Modern Moral Confusion
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Peter Kreeft
Kreeft issues a clear call to all Christians to get back to their active pursuit of real virtue in their daily lives. This in-depth analysis of the meaning of the virtues and their connection with the Beatitudes also summarizes a scriptural and theological wisdom on leading a holy lie. Includes the accumulated wisdom of St. Paul, C.S. Lewis, and ...
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Yes, Lord, I Have Sinned: But I Have Several Excellent Excuses
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James W Moore, Pastor
This book is a compilation of messages broadcast on the "Protestant Hour" by James W. Moore dealing with the tendency of 20th century moderns to admit to nothing and to find creative justifications for all of their questionable behaviors.Bible Themes.
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Pride
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Michael Eric Dyson
Of the seven deadly sins, pride is the only one with a virtuous side. It is certainly a good thing to have pride in one's country, in one's community, in oneself. But when taken too far, as Michael Eric Dyson shows in Pride, these virtues become deadly sins. Dyson, named by Ebony magazine as one of the 100 most influential African Americans, here ...
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Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and Their Remedies
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Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung
Contemporary culture trivializes the 'seven deadly sins', or vices, as if they have no serious moral or spiritual implications. "Glittering Vices" clears this misconception by exploring the traditional meanings of gluttony, sloth, lust, and others. It offers a brief history of how the vices were compiled and an eye-opening explication of how each ...
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Follow Me Down
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Shelby Foote
A mesmerizing novel of faith, passion, and murder by the author of The Civil War: A Narrative. Drawing on themes as old as the Bible, Foote's novel compels us to inhabit lives obsessed with sin and starving for redemption.
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Seven Snares of the Enemy
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Dr. Erwin W Lutzer
"Seven Snares of the Enemy" takes an in-depth look at common sin traps both Christians and non-Christians fall prey to in modern society. The seven common snares Satan uses to keep people in bond age are: greed, gambling, alcoholism, pornography, the sexual affair, the search for pleasure, and occultism.
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The seven deadly sins today
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Henry Fairlie
Few books have explored the nature of the seven deadly sins as this one has. The author writes with wit, clarity and depth.
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Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Lessons for Transforming Evil in Soul and Society
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Matthew Fox
In this ambitious, profound, yet exciting book, Matthew Fox offers a theology that fundamentally changes the traditional perception of good and evil and points the way to a more enlightened treatment of ourselves, one another and all of nature. By drawing together the wisdom of East and West and using his formidable capacity to explain deftly the ...
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Skipping Toward Gomorrah
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Dan Savage
Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on "Politically Incorrect, " told tales on "This American Life, " and continues to write a syndicated column. Here he commits each of the Seven Deadly Sins himself (or tries to) and finds those everyday Americans who take particular delight in their sinful pursuits.
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Long Night's Journey Into Day: The Path Away from Sin
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James Emery White
Author of RETHINKING THE CHURCH, White explains how the seven deadly sins still occupy a significant role in the lives of Christians, and how they can be overcome.
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Thoughts Matter: The Practice of the Spiritual Life
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Mary M Funk
This title introduces the method developed by John Cassian, a fourth-century monk, for concentrating the mind and controlling extraneous thought during meditation.
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Psychology
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Solomon Schimmel
All of us are engaged in a personal, ongoing battle with sin and vice. The seven deadly sins - lust, greed, envy, anger, pride, gluttony, and sloth - are our main antagonists in this struggle. They are primary causes of unhappiness and immorality, and because of their pervasive nature, have been of perennial interest to religious thinkers, ...
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Seven Deadly Sins
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William Morrow, Wilson, Auden
Thirty years ago, Ian Fleming had the brilliant idea of asking some of the greatest writers of our century to comment on their favorite deadly sin. The result: a brilliant, witty, and incisive book that includes everything from Evelyn Waugh's commentary on sloth to W.H. Auden venting his love of anger. Illustrated.
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Steering Through Chaos: Vice & Virtue in an Age of Moral Confusion
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Os Guinness
Based on seminars from Trinity Forum's leadership seminars, Os Guinness contrasts vice with beatitude in an attempt to see through the haze of moral confusion that plagues our society.
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Finding Happiness: Monastic Steps for a Fulfilling Life
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Christopher Jamison
Following the same accessible and engaging format of his previous book, Finding Sanctuary, Abbot Christopher examines different aspects of happiness and tells us what monastic wisdom has to say about them. In doing so, he offers steps for the journey of finding happiness.
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The Seven Deadly Sins: Jewish, Christian, and Classical Reflections on Human Nature
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Solomon Schimmel
Most people dismiss sin as part of an obsolete medieval worldview. Schimmel argues that the seven deadly sins - greed, envy, lust, pride, sloth, gluttony and anger - still bedevil modern life. He draws on a wide range of writings to identify each sin and examine contemporary manifestations.
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Fatal Distractions: Seven Obstacles That Mess Up Our Lives
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Ed Young
Pastor Young shows how the seven deadly sins are more relevant than ever--and could prove to be the fatal distractions that will destroy everything one holds dear.
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The Seven Deadly Sins: And How to Overcome Them
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Graham Tomlin
The inspiration behind the Hollywood blockbuster, "Se7en" (1995), the seven deadly sins are pride, greed, envy, anger, lust, gluttony and sloth. In this fascinating new book, experienced author and theologian Graham Tomlin explains the historical background to the sins before looking at each one in detail. He shows how, although the seven deadly ...
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Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes
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Jeff Cook
The Beatitudes of Jesus stand in sharp contrast to what ancient believers identified as the Seven Deadly Sins. Both promise us life at its fullest-but only one delivers. Setting the Beatitudes one by one against the Sins, Seven reveals how the Beatitudes point us from the nothingness that devours to the blessedness that restores and fills.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
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Steven Schwartz
Pride. Sloth. Gluttony. Lust. Envy. Anger. Covetousness. They're all here. More than 1,500 barbs, quips, anecdotes, and other brief quotations by authors from around the world and throughout the centuries refer to our inescapable familiarity with one or more of these seven naughty transgressions. Illustrated.
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Book of Vices
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Robert J Hutchinson
The Seven Deadly Sins are antholgized in this volume. The contributors include Dante on Avarice, Twain on Sloth, Dickens on Envy, Dostoyevsky on Anger, Milton on Pride, and Chaucer on Lust.
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Behind the Glittering Mask: Michael Exposes Lucifer's Lies about the Seven Deadly Sins
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Mark Rutland
Transporting readers to a high-powered confrontation between Lucifer and the Archangel Michael, this book exposes their battleground, the Seven Deadly Sins. A breathtaking gem of spiritual fiction and a tour de force of imaginative writing, this work reminds readers that Satan's biggest deceptions are the ones that seem closest to truth.
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A Vaudeville of Devils
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Robert Girardi
From the acclaimed author of "Madeleine's Ghost" and "Vaporetto 13" comes a remarkable collection of seven novellas and stories that explore the moral quandaries of humankind.
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Disordered Loves: Healing the Seven Deadly Sins
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William S Stafford
Stafford explores the psychological aspects of envy, lust, avarice, gluttony, anger, despair, and pride, and offers sacramental remedies rooted in Christian tradition. Provides readers with a contemporary language for talking about sin and temptation.
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Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring
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Ken Bazyn
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 The Seven Perennial Sins and Their Offspring is more indebted to literature than to personal experience, ethics, or the contemporary obsession with psychology. Drawing upon a vast storehouse of ...
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