By R. J. Snell
Our personal tradition is deeply contaminated, settling on a harmful freedom instead of the nice paintings for which God created us. Acedia and Its Discontents resists melancholy, calling us to reconfigure our imaginations and practices in deep love of the existence and paintings given through God. by way of feasting, conserving sabbath, and dealing good, we discover ways to see the realm as captivating, attractive, and good--just as God sees it.
"In the arid desolate tract that's educational writing, amid the broader wilderness that's smooth secular proposal, R. J. Snell's booklet on acedia is an oasis of vegetation and fruit and clean water. Professor Snell reminds us that guy must not ever be made subordinate to paintings, nor even to the empty 'vacations' which are yet interruptions in paintings. Like his nice predecessors Josef Pieper, Jacques Maritain, Max Picard, Romano Guardini, and Pope John Paul II, he diagnoses the besetting affliction of our time--spiritual torpor--and prescribes as a therapy the festivity of the Sabbath. a lovely booklet, packed with the happiness of wonder."--ANTHONY ESOLEN,
"A complete publication approximately only one vice, 'sloth'? Ah, yet this booklet is diversified. It exposes a deeply hidden and deeply harmful basic perspective that pervades our tradition, an angle that comes not only from the flesh (laziness) or from the area (world-weariness, cynicism), yet from the satan: disgust and uprising towards Being itself, normal in addition to supernatural. this can be the 'noonday satan' that fab saints have labelled 'sloth.' be aware of your enemy. learn this book!"--PETER KREEFT
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