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Humanity (Hardcover)
Ken Bazyn
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Humanity (Paperback)
Ken Bazyn
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Who was it who asked, "Why does the devil have all the good
tunes?"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 Bazyns 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 reading from a wide variety of
disciplines, Bazyn offers a "thick description" of each of these
"root" sins, setting them in a broad temporal, cultural, and human
context. The range of reference is enormous. We are as likely to
encounter Madame Bovary as Evagrius Ponticus, Jay Gatsby as Blaise
Pascal, Francois Truffaut as Francis of Assisi, testifying to the
perennial nature of the temptation to pride or anger, gluttony or
sloth. We succumb to them over and over partly, says the author
quoting Jorge Luis Borges, because "our minds are porous with
forgetfulness." With the widespread adoption of the Revised Common
Lectionary, topical preaching--on the creed, the ten commandments,
the beatitudes--has fallen out of use. Thus the even greater need
for a book like The Seven Perennial Sins. Without ever moralizing,
by means of anecdote and story, the book provides a serious, but
often amusing, account of the dark side of the human comedy.
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