Old demon Acedia is associated with a restlessness of spirit a nagging anxiety that coexists fitfully with the despair the world and a soul despondency that characterizes melancholy. ...

Tristitia: Melancholy roots and Ennui. Passive acedia has yet other evils attendant upon it, evils that connect it to almost all the other deadly sins. Both theologians and ...

Analysis of Sloth from the Christian and kabbalistic, we are in a position to grasp its peculiar qualities of sinfulness. In fact, sloth contains both passive and active ...

Emotionally and cognitively, the evil of acedia finds expression in a lack of any feeling for the world, for the people in it, or for the self. Takes ...

Perhaps the hardest sins to define and indeed, to credit as a sin, is sloth. The term, in fact, refers to a peculiar jumble of notions, dating from ...