Seven Summits

“The Envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.” The most egregious emotion that proceeds from limited good is envy (φθόνον) In the New Testament it occurs a total of nine times. It occurs four times in the Pauline epistles. Paul uses the term to refer to those who are walking after the flesh (First Cor. 3:3), those who will not inherit the kingdom of God (Gal. 5:21) and in reference to false teachers and believers. What is envy? Classical rhetoricians and philosophers…

Christianity advocates many ideals, however, very few gather as much attention as the seven deadly sins. While the sins provide different battles for every individual, Chris McCandless transformed pride from a deadly sin to a very literal meaning. On April 28th, 1992, Chris embarked on his great Alaskan journey only to be found dead on September 6th of the same year. In Jon Krakauer 's novel Into the Wild, we are given an inside view into Chris ' solitary journey from Emory University to the…

George Miller’s magical number 7, plus or minus two, helps confirm the capacity of short term memory (Miller, 1956). Most people 18 and over can hold 5 to 9 items in their short term memory (Miller, 1956). Miller believed that short term memory could only hold his magic number because of the limited “slots” in which memory could be placed in the brain. Miller reached this conclusion by getting the participants of the initial study to listen to a number of tones that were different by pitch.…

close-to-moral day if they 've not committed acts of lying,stealing,adultery, intentional sabotage, or any of the other "major" sins. So why do we have a set of sins we try our best to avoid committing? To claim pride, which ironically is the worst of the seven deadly sins to act upon. Tanner works as an assistant chef at a very high end restaurant. He takes his job very seriously and performs it wholeheartedly. Mackenzie has recently been hired as a new cook in the kitchen. Tanner wants to…

In his book, “Heart of the Artist,” Noland addresses topics that concern character building for ministry. It is very a practical guide to every-day living as a Christ follower. These can be things every Christian has heard before, but there is depth and importance to what the Lord speaks within Noland’s writing. A few of the main points he touches that I will reflect on are, servant-hood v. stardom, the artist in community, and the artist and sin. Servant-hood v. Stardom A lot of times within…

mean sinful pride. Sinful pride is altogether different and is the godless, rebellious assertion of self over others (Proverbs 30:13). Pride was the fall of man in Genesis, and pride is listed at the top of the seven most deadly sins in Catholic theology. Further down the list of the seven deadly sins is greed. Pride facilitates greed. Technology, coupled with human carelessness and pride leads to environmental breakdown, and when the use of natural resources is coupled with greed,…

as vanity, has a reputation for the sin from which all others arise. Those who suffer from pride issues usually fail to give compliments to others, but instead fish for compliments for themselves. Pride remains the original and most deadly of the seven sins, that leads straight to…

Wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, these are the seven deadly sins. Each one is said to send a person to Hell, where the one who committed that sin lives out their eternal punishments. At the time, pardons were bought to lessen a person’s eternal punishment in Hell by a few years. Even though the Pardoner in “The Pardoner 's Tale,” an excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, preached against these horrible sins, he does not follow his own advice and is guilty of every one of the…

the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and Christian Bible, Dante did organize an accurate hell even though the work was done seven hundred years ago. Dante’s writing is heavily relied on the…

Military revolutions are significant changes that alter both the fabric of societies and the nature of warfare itself. Revolutions in Military Affairs (RMAs) are technological, economic and doctrinal changes that occur within these revolutions. RMAs are useful in revealing how societies capitalize on military revolutions and use them to their advantage. Throughout history, nation states have used RMAs to exploit the advantages of military revolutions derived from the formation of nation…