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Description
Reviews
"This volume is part of a lecture and book series on the Seven Deadly Sins cosponsored by The New York Public Library and Oxford University Press. Our purpose was to invite scholars and writers to chart the ways we have approached and understood evil, one deadly sin at a time....Our contemporary fascination with these age-old sins, our struggle against or celebration of them, reveals as much about out continued desires to define human nature as it does about our divine aspirations. I hope that this book and its companions invite the reader to indulge in a similar reflection on vice, virtue, the spiritual, and the human."
– Elda Rotor,
series editor, Seven Deadly Sins
Oxford University Press
"Tickle's thoughtfulness and scholarship will make readers avaricious and leave them wanting more."
– Publishers Weekly
"Don't be misled by the format of this book. What you're holding is not a decaf caramel macchiato-it's a triple espresso, a little book with a big wallop. Greed, Phyllis Tickle says, is a sin we see readily in others but rarely acknowledge as our own -and therein lies its power. Urbanely provocative, with striking assertions every other page-if you don't find something to disagree with, you can't have been reading very carefully- it demands to be devoured in one sitting:'
– John Wilson,
editor, Books & Culture
"Many cheers to Phyllis Tickle for this lively, trim, erudite study! She has pulled off a near-miracle, making the most deadening (remember Midas ) of the deadly Sins glitter with fascination and gleam with moral (or immoral) depth. Tickle is full of surprises, darting from the Mahabharata to Hieronymus Bosch to D.H. Lawrence to 9/11 as she makes her case for greed as the 'mother and matrix, root and consort' of all sins. A superb achievement that leaves one, dare I say it, greedy for more:'
– Philip Zaleski,
editor, The Best Spiritual Writing series;
author, The Recollected Heart
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