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The Noonday Devil


The Noonday Devil
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Author : Dom Jean-Charles Nault
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015

The Noonday Devil written by Dom Jean-Charles Nault and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Religion categories.


The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word "sloth," however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its name harkens back to antiquity and the Middle Ages, and seems to have been largely forgotten, acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis. He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life-- priests, religious, and married or single laymen. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.



The Noonday Devil


The Noonday Devil
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Author : Jean-Charles Nault
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2015-11-11

The Noonday Devil written by Jean-Charles Nault and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-11 with Religion categories.


The noonday devil is the demon of acedia, the vice also known as sloth. The word “sloth”, however, can be misleading, for acedia is not laziness; in fact it can manifest as busyness or activism. Rather, acedia is a gloomy combination of weariness, sadness, and a lack of purposefulness. It robs a person of his capacity for joy and leaves him feeling empty, or void of meaning Abbot Nault says that acedia is the most oppressive of demons. Although its name harkens back to antiquity and the Middle Ages, and seems to have been largely forgotten, acedia is experienced by countless modern people who describe their condition as depression, melancholy, burn-out, or even mid-life crisis. He begins his study of acedia by tracing the wisdom of the Church on the subject from the Desert Fathers to Saint Thomas Aquinas. He shows how acedia afflicts persons in all states of life— priests, religious, and married or single laymen. He details not only the symptoms and effects of acedia, but also remedies for it.



The Noonday Demon


The Noonday Demon
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-09-16

The Noonday Demon written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


The author offers a look at depression, drawing on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, and doctors to assess the disease's complexities, causes, symptoms, and available therapies.



Dan England And The Noonday Devil


Dan England And The Noonday Devil
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Author : Myles Connolly
language : en
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Release Date : 2018-09-03

Dan England And The Noonday Devil written by Myles Connolly and has been published by Pickle Partners Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-03 with Religion categories.


A joyous gent who sings of the glory of the true realities of life, Dan England chose “talking” as his vocation in life. This he did, joyously and beautifully. He talked to the poets without dreams, actors who couldn’t act, and writers who couldn’t write who came to his house for an evening to listen and stayed on for months...years. Not a few found new hope as they heard him capture the poetry of living in his talk of saints, and in stories about his greatness of God’s gifts (among which was the wine that gave added sparkle to his words). There was Briggs, the religion editor without religion to become a fearless “defender of the faith” under Dan’s influence. And Tim, the janitor who “exposed” the corruption of the Match Industry when in an idle hour’s count of a box of matches he found “four” missing. For the glorious length of a Dan England discourse the retiring little janitor became a tiger for reform. This is the latest troubadour of life-beautiful to come from the pen of the author of the classic Mr. Blue.



Fighting The Noonday Devil And Other Essays Personal And Theological


Fighting The Noonday Devil And Other Essays Personal And Theological
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Author : R. R. Reno
language : en
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Release Date : 2011-02

Fighting The Noonday Devil And Other Essays Personal And Theological written by R. R. Reno and has been published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02 with Religion categories.


In this stirring volume R. R. Reno a thoughtful, literate writer with a zest for physical and theological adventure looks back on his time working in the oil fields of Wyoming, his quests to the heights of Yosemite and the ice cliffs of the French Alps, his daughter s bat mitzvah, and more, rendering seven diverse fragments of life in energetic prose. Fighting the Noonday Devil resounds with Reno s depth of feeling and regard for the tangible things of life. Through these narratives, vignettes, and reflections he shows that it is the real-life manifestations of love and loyalty far beyond intellectual abstractions or theories that train us for true piety. Whether defending Jack Kerouac, describing work on a drilling rig, or narrating his reception into the Roman Catholic Church, Rusty Reno brings a writer s eye and a theologian s heart to the essayist s labors. Many rewards await the reader of this book. Alan Jacobs author of Wayfaring and The Narnian R. R. Reno s essays are intellectually stimulating, and some even possess cinematic possibilities. I find their Augustinian ethos deeply appealing in their consistent combination of wisdom and eloquence. David K. Naugle author of Reordered Love, Reordered Lives: Learning the Deep Meaning of Happiness In this smart and sparkling collection R. R. Reno applies his consummate literary skills to subjects as diverse as acedia, mountain climbing, religious conversion, Jack Kerouac, and interfaith marriage, uniting them under a single glorious banner, that of reclaiming the essential function of culture, the cultivation of the soul. A bravura performance. Philip Zaleski coauthor of Prayer: A History Fighting the Noonday Devil is the work of a pious intellect in all the best senses of the term. . . . Reno reads his life in parables in a way that provokes us to see our own lives anew. In him we find a voice and style in the best tradition of Newman incisive, affecting, wise, inviting. I was captivated by this book. James K. A. Smith author of The Devil Reads Derrida and Other Essays on the University, the Church, Politics, and the Arts



The Noonday Devil


The Noonday Devil
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Author : Ralph McInerny
language : en
Publisher: Atheneum Books
Release Date : 1985

The Noonday Devil written by Ralph McInerny and has been published by Atheneum Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with categories.




Thomas Merton And The Noonday Demon


Thomas Merton And The Noonday Demon
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Author : Donald Grayston
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2015-05-19

Thomas Merton And The Noonday Demon written by Donald Grayston and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-19 with Biography & Autobiography categories.


How did Thomas Merton become Thomas Merton? Starting out from any one of his earlier major life moments--wealthy orphan boy, big man on campus, fervent Roman Catholic convert, new and obedient monk--we find ourselves asking how by his life's end he had grown from who he was then into a transcultural and transreligious spiritual teacher read by millions. This book takes another such starting point: his attempt in the mid-1950s to move from his abbey of Gethsemani, in Kentucky--a place that had become, in his view, noisy beyond bearing--to an Italian monastery, Camaldoli, which he idealized as a place of monastic peace. The ultimate irony: Camaldoli at that time, bucolic and peaceful outwardly, was inwardly riven by a pre-Vatican II culture war; whereas Gethsemani, which he tried so hard to leave, became, when he was given his hermitage there in 1965, his place to recover Eden. In walking with Merton on this journey, and reading the letters he wrote and received at the time, we find ourselves asking, as he did, with so much energy and honesty, the deep questions that we may well need to answer in our own lives.



The Noonday Demon


The Noonday Demon
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Author : John Blackwell
language : en
Publisher: Crossroad
Release Date : 2004

The Noonday Demon written by John Blackwell and has been published by Crossroad this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Laziness categories.


We are all tempted by sloth, the sin of being superficial, of ignoring what is good and important in life. This spiritual journey through the Bible, history, and culture exposes sloth and offers tips on how to combat it.



The Noonday Devil


The Noonday Devil
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Author : Alan Judd
language : en
Publisher: Fontana Press
Release Date : 1987

The Noonday Devil written by Alan Judd and has been published by Fontana Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with categories.




The Noonday Devil


The Noonday Devil
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Author : Ursula Curtiss
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-10

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This is a new release of the original 1951 edition.