7 deadly sins
Saturday, April 30th, 2011The 7 Deadly Sins, also known as the Capital Vices or Cardinal Sins, is a classification of objectionable vices that have been used since early Christian times to educate and instruct followers concerning fallen humanity’s tendency to sin. [1]
The scenario where the 7 Deadly sins are shown is FQ I.IV.1-37 (that’s FQ Book 1, Canto 4, stanzas 1-37). [2]
Gluttony is an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires. [3]
… lust and love are two different things; while a genuine, selfless love can represent the highest degree of development and feeling of community with others in a human relationship, Lust can be described as the excessive desire for sexual release. [...] Modern views identify Gluttony with an overindulgence of food and drink, though in the past any form of thoughtless excess could fall within the definition of this sin. [...] Greed is, like Lust and Gluttony, a sin of excess. [4]
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. [...] Pride is excessive belief in one’s own abilities, that interferes with the individual’s recognition of the grace of God. [3]
While there are seven of them, this list is considerably different from the traditional one, with only pride clearly being in both lists. [...] The modern Roman Catholic Catechism lists the sins in Latin as “superbia, avaritia, invidia, ira, luxuria, gula, pigritia seu acedia”, with an English translation of “pride, avarice, envy, wrath, lust, gluttony, and sloth/acedia”. [1]
The penitents in the Purgatorio were forced to stand between two trees, unable to reach or eat the fruit hanging from either, and were thus described as having a starved appearance. [...] Dante ’s criterion was “excessive love of others,” which therefore rendered love and devotion to God as secondary. [4]
That is not to claim some sort of sainthood, but his ideas were very much in keeping with the teaching of the Catholic Church at a time when the practice of the clergy often fell short of the doctrine. [...] The table below lists The Seven Deadly Sins (vices) in the traditional order with the virtues against which they are sins. [2]
It has been called the sin from which all others arise. [3]
Sources:
[1] Seven deadly sins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
[2] The Seven Deadly Sins
[3] The Seven Deadly Sins revealed
[4] 7 Deadly Sins