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Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues : A Visual History by Ed Simon (2024, Hardcover)

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The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues by Ed Simon. Title The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues. Unlike the devils condemned to perdition and the angels compelled to paradise, humans are divine creatures that house within them warring impulses.

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PublisherCernunnos

ISBN-101419774107

ISBN-139781419774102

eBay Product ID (ePID)20065343407

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Book TitleSeven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues : a Visual History

Number of Pages400 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2024

TopicEthics, Subjects & Themes / Religious, History

GenreArt, Religion

AuthorEd Simon

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.5 in

Item Weight62.5 Oz

Item Length10.1 in

Item Width7.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2024-937748

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Decimal241.3

SynopsisA captivating artistic and philosophic exploration of humankind's complex moral codes A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology , Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will complete this moral trilogy and finally consider God's most enigmatic of creations: None of the conundrums of metaphysics are as baroque as the motivations of the human soul. Unlike the devils condemned to perdition and the angels compelled to paradise, humans are divine creatures that house within them warring impulses. Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will examine the literary, philosophical, theological, and most of all artistic expressions of both the seven deadly sins and their respective seven cardinal virtues, drawing upon millennia of history to gather a compendium of humanity at its best and its worst. As a volume, the book will explore the Manichean nature of the human animal in all of its grandeur and canker, motivated by the faith that tales of damnation and salvation are the only stories that are ultimately worth telling., A captivating artistic and philosophic exploration of humankind's complex moral codes A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology , Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will complete this moral trilogy and finally consider God's most enigmatic of creations: None of the conundrums of metaphysics are as baroque as the motivations of the human soul. Unlike the devils condemned to perdition and the angels compelled to paradise, humans are divine creatures that house within them warring impulses. Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will examine the literary, philosophical, theological, and most of all artistic expressions of the seven deadly sins and their respective seven cardinal virtues, drawing upon millennia of history to gather a compendium of humanity at its best and its worst. As a volume, the book will explore the Manichean nature of the human animal in all of its grandeur and canker, motivated by the faith that tales of damnation and salvation are the only stories that are ultimately worth telling.