Lent at Pine Street
Virtues, Vices, and the Practice of Penitence
Session Breakdown
March 4th Liturgical Practices of Lent (Scott Miller)
March 11th Deadly Sins: Reforming Medieval Penitence
March 18th Virtue Signalling: Politics and Penitence
March 25th The Music of Lent (Joseph Garrison)
April 1st Dinner Church: Conversational Service
Honor/shame cultures vs. guilt/innocence cultures
Virtue in the New Testament
The Desert Mothers and Fathers
Evagrius Pontius, 4th c.
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c.
Gregory VI, 6th c.
Sloth
SpiritualizingtheLaw
I
can
begin to answer the question
“‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question
‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”
Virtue Signalling: Politics and Practice of Penitence
Why politics?
Feminist critiques of Pride as root of original sin
“The essence of the feminist critique here is that, by and large, female pathology is typically not rooted in the elevation of the self but in the negation of the self—hence, calling for the shattering of the self or the humility that “regards others as better than ourselves” will end up aggravating, rather than addressing, women’s sin.”
Honor/shame cultures vs. guilt/innocence cultures
Honor/shame cultures vs. guilt/innocence cultures
I
can
begin to answer the question
“‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question
‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’”