Vicious Sorrow: The Roots of a ‘Spiritual’ Sin in the Summa Theologiae

The vice of acedia deserves—and rewards—a closer reading than is implied in the old rendering ‘sloth’, or even in contemporary readings of ‘spiritual sloth’. Such is at least true in Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae, the subject of the following close (re)reading of this enigmatic vice. Investigating the...

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Main Author: Lysen, Laura M. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sage [2017]
In: Studies in Christian ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 329-347
RelBib Classification:CB Christian life; spirituality
KAE Church history 900-1300; high Middle Ages
NBE Anthropology
ZD Psychology
Further subjects:B Accidie
B Passions
B Summa Theologiae
B Rest
B Sorrow
B Thomas Aquinas
B sloth
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