![]() ![]() Physically, acedia is fundamentally associated with a cessation of motion and an indifference to work it finds expression in laziness, idleness, and indolence. Mentally, acedia has a number of distinctive components the most important of these is affectlessness, a lack of any feeling about self or other, a mind-state that gives rise to boredom, rancor, apathy, and a passive inert or sluggish mentation. Spiritually, acedia first referred to an affliction attending religious persons, especially monks, wherein they became indifferent to their duties and obligations to God. In his Summa Theologica, Saint Thomas Aquinas defined sloth as "sorrow about spiritual good". It may be defined as absence of interest or habitual disinclination to exertion. Sloth (Latin: tristitia, or acedia "without care") refers to a peculiar jumble of notions, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and physical states. Main article: Sloth (deadly sin) Parable of the Wheat and the Tares (1624) by Abraham Bloemaert, Walters Art Museum Historical and modern definitions, views, and associations Īccording to Anglican Henry Edward Manning, the seven deadly sins are seven ways of eternal death. Christian denominations, such as the Anglican Communion, Lutheran Church, and Methodist Church, still retain this list, and modern evangelists such as Billy Graham have explicated the seven deadly sins. Thomas Aquinas uses and defends Gregory's list in his Summa Theologica, although he calls them the "capital sins" because they are the head and form of all the others. Gregory's list became the standard list of sins. Gregory combined tristitia with acedia and vanagloria with superbia, adding envy, which is invidia in Latin. In AD 590, Pope Gregory I revised the list to form a more common list. Tristitia ( sorrow/ despair/despondency).Luxuria/Fornicatio ( lust, fornication). ![]() Ὑπερηφανία ( hyperēphania) pride, sometimes rendered as self-overestimation, arrogance, or grandiosity Įvagrius's list was translated into the Latin of Western Christianity in many writings of John Cassian, thus becoming part of the Western tradition's spiritual pietas or Catholic devotions as follows:.Ἀκηδία ( akēdia) acedia, rendered in the Philokalia as dejection.Λύπη ( lypē) sadness, rendered in the Philokalia as envy, sadness at another's good fortune.Πορνεία ( porneia) prostitution, fornication. ![]() The fourth-century monk Evagrius Ponticus reduced the nine logismoi to eight, as follows:
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