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
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?’”
Honor/shame cultures vs. guilt/innocence cultures
Moral Virtues (from habit)
Virtue
Courage
Generosity Temperance
Magnanimity
Ambition
Gentleness
Friendliness
Excess
Rashness
Insensibility
Wastefulness
Vanity
Over-ambition
Irritability
Flattery
Boasting
Buffoonery
Deficiency
Cowardice
Extravagance
Stinginess
“Smallness of Soul”
Lack of Ambition
Spiritlessness
Quarrelsomeness
Self-Deprecation
Boorishness
Intellectual Virtues (from teaching)
knowledge art practical judgement intellect wisdom
Virtue in the New Testament
Colossians 3
The Desert Mothers and Fathers
Evagrius Pontius,
4th c.
Eight Evil (Logismoi)Thoughts
“The first thought of all is that of love of self; after this, the eight.”
gluttony
sexuallust
loveofmoney
sadness
anger
acedia
vainglory
pride
Evagrius Pontius, 4th c.
Thomas Aquinas, 13th c.
Gregory VI, 6th c.
Vainglory
Sloth
Sloth
Wrath
Lust & Gluttony
