The Seven Deadly Sins | Prof. Timothy Pawl

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🗓️ 16 January 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Professor Timothy Pawl explores the seven deadly sins according to Thomistic tradition, outlining what they are, what makes them deadly, how they are often misunderstood, their subdivisions, traditional ordering, and how to avoid them.

This lecture was given on September 19th, 2024, at Indiana University.

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About the Speaker:

Timothy J. Pawl is Professor of Philosophy at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, and holds a Ph.D. from Saint Louis University in philosophy. He specializes in the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, Thomistic philosophy, analytic theology, and moral psychology. His books include In Defense of Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2016), In Defense of Extended Conciliar Christology (Oxford, 2019), The Incarnation (Cambridge, 2020), and Jesus and the Genome: The Intersection of Christology and biology (Cambridge, 2024), co-authored with a philosopher of science and an evolutionary biologist.

He has published more than forty academic articles in his areas of expertise and given more than 100 academic or popular-level talks or interviews about his work, including a series of interviews for the PBS show Closer to Truth.

He is the husband of another philosopher, Faith Glavey Pawl, and the proud father of one son and four daughters.

Keywords: Avarice, Dante's Purgatory, Deadly Sins, Eleanor Stump, Gluttony, Lust, Pride, Sloth, Theology, Vice, Wrath

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1:01.3	Tonight, my goal is a talk about the seven deadly sins with you. So here's the plan. I want to
1:07.0	talk about what the seven deadly sins are. So get a list of them, just what the seven are of them. And then I want to talk about what the seven deadly sins are. So you get a list of them, just what
1:11.6	the seven are of them. And then I want to talk about what it is for something to be a deadly
1:15.6	sin. What makes it a deadly sin? If you remember the list, you remember things like hatred
1:20.6	aren't on the list. And you might think to yourself, why in the world are things like the ones on
1:25.2	the list on it, but hatred isn't on it. I mean, hatred sounds
1:27.5	pretty terrible, right? Why doesn't that count as a deadly sin? I want to talk about how we should
1:31.7	understand each ways we might misconceive them a bit in our own minds, subdivisions underneath them
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