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5. Anger: choosing rage rather than charity
Evagrius and Gregory were writing for a church that was firmly based in monastic asceticism. This was an authoritarian age, with firmly regulated relationships between people and their rulers, and especially between humans and God.
We have now moved beyond the agrarian cultures that led to the axial religions: Judaism, Buddhism, Christianity, and Islam. The Age of Reason and industrial revolution led to a more mental or rational perspective including the “rights of man” and an almost unbelievably rapid change in the position of women and abolition of slavery.
6. Acedia, from the Greek akedia, or “uncaring” [link widoczny dla zalogowanych],
7. Vainglory: narcissism, glorifying yourself rather than God
Two hundred years before Gregory the Great identified the Seven Deadly Sins, Evagrius Ponticus (one of the Desert Fathers) listed eight temptations as most likely to distract us from God and/or the spiritual path:
4. Sadness: melancholy, depression
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2. Lust: craving or coveting
3. Avarice: a belief in lack, selfishness, or “never enough”
1. Gluttony: inordinate desire or self-indulgence
8. Pride: believing you can be God better than God.
From the industrial age, western societies are now making progress into the Information Age, as evinced not only by mass communications but by a new focus on relationships. The circle of care has widened to embrace the whole of humanity; we are now concerned about the entire planet, rather than just our individual families, football team, company, or country. Global change is clearly taking our spiritual realities along for the developmental ride
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