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[16]: 103–12 In the 19th century, Christian spiritual advisors in the U.S. and Britain became worried that scrupulosity was not only a sin in itself, but also led to sin, by attacking the virtues of faith, hope, and charity. Studies in the mid-20th century reported that scrupulosity was a major problem among American Catholics, with up to 25 ...
Scrupulous Anonymous is a Catholic monthly newsletter and website published by Liguori Publications, written primarily for individuals who suffer from scrupulosity. It is a ministry of the Redemptorists founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori. [1] [2] The newsletter is run by Thomas Santa, a Redemptorist priest who ministers to those with scrupulosity ...
The book was controversial when it was first published because it proposed to entirely re-invent core areas of Christian teaching, such as fundamental theology, Christology, hamartiology, Mariology, biblical theology, natural theology, hermeneutics, theodicy, eschatology and moral theology, instead of simply making cosmetic pastoral reforms within Christianity.
The Sickness unto Death (Danish: Sygdommen til Døden) is a book written by Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard in 1849 under the pseudonym Anti-Climacus. A work of Christian existentialism, the book is about Kierkegaard's concept of despair, which he equates with the Christian concept of sin, which he terms "the sin of despair".
Christianity not Mysterious is a 1696 book by the radical thinker John Toland. [1] Publication history. The work was published anonymously between December 1695 and ...
The doctrine of sin is central to the Christian faith, since its basic message is about redemption in Christ. [2] Hamartiology, a branch of Christian theology which is the study of sin, [3] describes sin as an act of offence against God by despising his persons and Christian biblical law, and by injuring others. [4]
[The Red Book: Liber Novus, pp. 346–54] The gnostic author of a commentary on the Sermons, Stephan A. Hoeller, [5] subsequently asked the editor of The Red Book, Sonu Shamdasani, to comment on the relationship between the two books, to which he replied that the Seven Sermons was like an island, whereas the Red Book was like a vast continent. [6]
In early Christian thought, the lack of joy was regarded as a willful refusal to enjoy the goodness of God. By contrast, apathy was considered a refusal to help others in times of need. Acēdia is the negative form of the Greek term κηδεία ( Kēdeia ), which has a more restricted usage.