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This practical resource, now updated and revised throughout, helps Christian readers evaluate and reflect on contemporary conceptions of vices and possible remedies.

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In this new and expanded edition of Glittering Vices , Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung offers wise and compassionate soul care that is historically rooted, biblically sound, and surgically precise. A skilled philosopher and gifted teacher, DeYoung makes the wisdom of the desert accessible for contemporary audiences through relevant cultural references and honest personal examples, inviting us to see where were captive and deceived so that were better able to cooperate with the Holy Spirits work of conforming us to the likeness of Christ. I have long been a fan of DeYoungs work, and this revised editionwith its even deeper emphasis on the grace that frames the process of self-examination and the spiritual practices that help us counteract the gravitational pull of the vicesis a liberating and joyful read.

Sharon Garlough Brown , author of the Sensible Shoes series, Shades of Light , and Remember Me

The revised edition of Glittering Vices helpfully builds on the insights of the first edition and deeply probes the nature of the disease that has infected all Gods precious image-bearers. DeYoung skillfully analyzes the sickness that plagues us in its various manifestations and wonderfully provides healing antidotes in her presentation of the classical spiritual disciplines. This is surely one of the best books written on the vices and their cure in the past one hundred years, if not longer.

Chris Hall , president, Renovar

The second edition of Glittering Vices complements DeYoungs now classic, incisive, andto any honest and self-reflective readerhumbling analysis of the vices with an inspiring account of spiritual disciplines that counteracts those vices. Far from a simple self-help project, DeYoungs work offers a theologically nuanced account of divine and human agency that would please any scholastic theologian as well as wise counsel on the need for continued vigilance and ongoing growth that would make any classic spiritual master proud. Glittering Vices is read equally profitably as a moral theology of vice and virtue and as a spiritual discipline itself.

William C. Mattison III , University of Notre Dame

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2009, 2020 by Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung

Published by Brazos Press

a division of Baker Publishing Group

PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287

www.brazospress.com

Ebook edition created 2020

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any meansfor example, electronic, photocopy, recordingwithout the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

ISBN 978-1-4934-2216-6

Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1989 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

Scripture quotations labeled NIV are from the Holy Bible, New International Version. NIV. Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The NIV and New International Version are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.

To a Long Loved Love, Within This Quickened Dust, and Epiphany from The Ordering of Love by Madeleine LEngle, Crosswicks, Ltd. Used by permission. All rights reserved.

To a Long Loved Love: 7 from The Weather of the Heart by Madeleine LEngle, copyright 1978 by Crosswicks, Ltd. Used by permission of WaterBrook Multnomah, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

In the Lord Ill Be Ever Thankful, words by the Community of Taiz, music by Jacques Berthier, copyright 1991, Ateliers et Presses de Taiz, Taiz Community, France, GIA Publications, Inc., exclusive North American agent. Used by permission.

Excerpt from Piers Plowman: A Modern Verse Translation 2014. William Langland. Translated by Peter Sutton by permission of McFarland & Company, Inc., Box 611, Jefferson NC 28640. www.mcfarlandbooks.com.

Contents

Cover

Endorsements

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Why Study the Vices?

2. Gifts from the Desert: The Origins and History of the Vices Tradition

3. Vainglory: Image Is Everything

4. Envy: Feeling Bitter When Others Have It Better

5. Sloth (Acedia): Resistance to the Demands of Love

6. Avarice: Possession and Mastery

7. Wrath: Holy Emotion or Hellish Passion?

8. Gluttony: Feeding Your Face and Starving Your Heart

9. Lust: Sexuality Stripped Down

10. The Rest of the Journey: Self-Examination, the Seven Capital Vices, and Spiritual Formation

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Back Cover

Preface

This is a book about sin and self-examination, but sin should never be the first or last word about us.

The Christian life begins and ends with love. Ultimately, what draws us from brokenness and bondage is the power of loveGods love. Taking our inspiration from Henri Nouwen, we can say that our belovedness and blessedness form the essential context for confronting our brokenness.

Advertisers rarely give us a picture of what we should reject. They craft their messages based on a key insight into human nature. They know that what draws the human heart and fuels the human spirit is love of something good. We are moved, powered, captivated by a glimpse of something in front of us that we long for more and more wholeheartedly. The images they put before us promise a good and beautiful life (or at least a replica, or a convincing fantasy). In short, they start with a vision of what we desire. The reason this works so well is that it is an imitationand a cheap imitation at thatof what God does for us. He sets before us abundant life. Its the life we were made for. Dont let anything hold you back from it. God wills to draw you into his heart of love, like a magnet pulling an iron filing into a close bond of connection. Allow that image to fuel your spiritual journey through this book.

When I wrote the first edition of Glittering Vices , I was coming straight from a philosophical study of Aquinass Summa theologiae and the vices tradition. I found the primary source material conceptually rich but alsosurprisinglypersonal. I confess I did not expect to find these texts speaking to my own deep spiritual longings. I was not alone in this reaction, though. My students encouraged me to condense the course material into a book, because they found it was the most practical thing theyd studied yet in college.

They wanted to know: How should I live? What sorts of goods and what types of relationships should I commit to and center my life on? What patterns of thought and rhythms of desire have I fallen into that are thwarting that good life? How do I discern that? What would restoration and freedom feel like? How do I move forward into new practices and a new way of life?

My best description of this book is that it is a translation, colored by my own experience, of ancient ideas from disciples and saints who have walked in wisdom before me. Glittering Vices is my attempt to make this material understandable and accessible to contemporary Christians and other students of the vices.

The implicit frame of the book is sanctificationthat is, the ways the Holy Spirit operates in our lives to conform us more and more to the character of Jesus Christ. God is working for us, and with us, and in us. When vices prompt self-examination and reflection, this is neither a guilt trip nor a recipe for despair. Rather, anything convicting that you find in these pages is an invitation to be set free.

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