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Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes
Written by Jeff V. Cook
Narrated by Jeff Cook
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Our world is charged with both the grandeur of God and the void of his absence. The seven deadly sins are the force causing that hole. They are at work in each of us. They decimate our relationships, our souls and our world. These deadly sins often seem pleasing and good for gaining what we desire, but they are thoroughly poisonous. Conversely, the Beatitudes are Jesus' pictures of a restored creation. The Beatitudes introduced what Jesus said to his earliest followers about a life strong and fruitful. In fact, the Beatitudes give us a glimpse of a world empty of evil and filled to the edges with God's life. Looking at the Beatitudes and the seven deadly sins in turn, we see two paths, two sets of invitations. Both call to deep places within us to come and taste. Both invite us to take up residence. Both present themselves as life as it actually is. But only one will draw us further into reality.And only one will make us happy. “Of the many, many books about the Gospels, or about Jesus, or about Christian morality, only one in a thousand gives us a real breakthrough, a new ‘big picture’. Most are just nice little candles on the cake. Seven is a bonfire. It’s not just good; it’s striking. It doesn’t just say all the things you’ve heard a thousand times before. And yet it’s totally in sync with both the saints and the scholars.”--Peter Kreeft, professor of philosophy at Boston College, and author of over forty-five books, including Fundamentals of the Faith.
Author
Jeff V. Cook
Jeff Cook teaches philosophy at the University of Northern Colorado. He is the author of Seven: The Deadly Sins and the Beatitudes. He pastors Atlas Church and longs to front a funk band again. He lives with his wife and two sons in Greeley, Colorado.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5excellent explanation of true righteousness and its opposite
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This book was a strange commentary on society and the differences between the haves and have nots. Since this was written to make a point I can kind of overlook the HUGE GLARING hole in the story and why things went the way they did. This was an OK book with some interesting concepts but overall NOT one of Cards best works, far from it I would say.Someone invented a way to put someone into stasis and pull them out healthy months or years later, in preparation of trying interstellar travel. There's a catch, their brains are wiped to that of a new born. Eventually someone figured out how to record the mind and reload it back. This allowed the human race to move out and populate the stars, and was used by the rich and famous to try and live 'forever' by going into stasis for years at a time and spend only little bits of it living.