![]() Dwelling on these thoughts too long and they can choke off the life of the Spirit in our lives. Since we have a body we have time to turn away from the thoughts before acting. Thinking deadly thoughts would be equivalent to sin. If we were only spirit, our thought would be our action. We can repent from these thoughts prior to their becoming sin. Allen asserts Christ was tempted and did not sin. We can still repent, turn from the thought before we take further action. And that is ‘knowing how to love God’ rather than ‘knowing about God.’ĭr Allen, in the guise of a country parson, cautions us that these thought are not sin when they come. In studying spiritual theology Diogenes considers the shift from “How can we know and love God” to “What can we know about God.” Again professor Allen looks to the early Church through the The Age of Enlightenment. Practice, how to overcome these ‘Deadly Thoughts’ – Lectio Divina – divine reading – 4 steps: read, meditate, pray and contemplate. ![]() Content – Gregory I shifts “deadly thoughts” to “deadly sins” – Dr Allen’s retains focus on the eight thoughts of Evagrius – I see this as a quantitative change.Pride – we take full credit for our achievements – failing to credit God.Vainglory – wanting the notice of our achievements by others,.Acedia – discouragement at lack of progress – apathy, boredom,.Anger with Sadness “are concerned with our relation to other people”.Sadness – a form of self-pity – all the things I could have become. ![]() Avarice “Our needs for material goods suggest to the mind a lengthy old age.” “I will not be able to provide for myself.”.Lust – to desire the body of a person and not to desire the person.Context – a brief sketch of the life of Evagrius.The first video in the series Dr Allen provides: Before approaching the content, Professor Allen would approach the context, the genesis of idea. Diogenes Allen adopts the same name for this series. “ The Eight Deadly Thoughts“, takes its name from one of the chapters in On Practice by Evagrius Ponticus (c 346-399), a Desert Father. Other videos will be linked to the outline below.ĭiogenes on Spiritual Theology – ” … one of the things I found … through all spiritual writers, that is people who are concerned with bringing to fullness, in our lives, the work of Christ, and that’s the work of God the Holy Spirit….all of them agree that after we are converted we can expect ourselves to be assailed by eight deadly thoughts.” The short video attached is the introduction to the video series, they are relatively short so easy to listen to, even if you are tight on time. When we entertain these thoughts, our thoughts are not free to dwell on the things of God. ![]() The problem is when we dwell on, indulge, or act on these thoughts that they become sin. These thoughts assail us unbidden – It is important to realize that the thoughts themselves are not sin. The themes demonstrate that spirituality is a key dimension to self understanding and is part of relationships, social engagement, an understanding of meaning and purpose in life, and an overall sense of happiness and joy. Urn:oclc:85862359 Republisher_date 20130702172422 Republisher_operator Scandate 20130628184737 Scanner .“These eight deadly thoughts are like cholesterol, they fill the arteries, so to speak, and the flow of the Spirit is not able to get through easily, and sometime, choked off all together.” OL2618864W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 94.70 Pages 304 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0664252087 Internetarchivebookdrive External-identifier Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 17:34:57 Boxid IA169513 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City Atlanta, Ga.
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