Final

Question 1

What is the understanding of sloth?

Answer 1

Laziness

Question 2

What word did early writers use for the vice of sloth?

Answer 2

Acedia

Question 3

What is sloth according to D.?

Answer 3

A failure to love, lack of care

Question 4

What kind of relationship does d. use repeatedly as a metaphor for sloth? why?

Answer 4

Marriage. It takes an investment and commitment

Question 5

What ways can sloth manifest itself?

Answer 5

Apathy and avoidance

Question 6

What is the ancient remedy for sloth? what does this mean for people today?

Answer 6

Stabilitas loci, stability of place. this means staying committed to your spiritual vocation and identity

Question 7

What is the vice of avarice?

Answer 7

The hearts inner condition of uiring and retaining money and possessions excessively

Question 8

What was A. name for the voter opposing the vice of avarice? What else is this vitue apposed to besided vice?

Answer 8

Generosity and Liverality, which means freedom

Question 9

What is justice? how is it related to the vice of avarice?

Answer 9

Giving others what is due them. Avarice is the opposite because we only care about ourselves.

Question 10

What problem does D. say occurs when the ultimate measure by which society judges everything is it monetary or material value

Answer 10

There is no tangible payoff for investing in relationships

Question 11

According to d. what is the best practice for combating avarice? How does this practice actually work to combat avarice?

Answer 11

Tithing. Limiting our greed will loosen our attachment to it

Question 12

What is the proper target and what is the proper manner or root of holy anger?

Answer 12

proper target is injustice and it should be out of love. It should seek justice.

Question 13

Great_____ is the root of great anger

Answer 13

Love

Question 14

how does apathy relate to anger and love? What would lack of anger in the appropriate situation reveal about a person?

Answer 14

They only get angry when they are the recipient of a personal attack. They don’t care about justice for others

Question 15

What are the three categories of disordered anger in Aquinas view

Answer 15

getting angry to easily,
getting angrier than we should
staying angry to long

Question 16

What story was used to show how jesus used anger correctly? why was he mad? what made it justifiable?

Answer 16

Jesus healed a man with a withered hand and the pharisees were mad that he healed on the Sabbath. He was angry that they showed a lack of love for the man

Question 17

What is the vrture opposed to wrath in Aquinas work? whats another term for this according to D.

Answer 17

Gentleness. D. says self possession

Question 18

How is gluttony popularly understood? how does the author define it?

Answer 18

We think of it as obesity or overeating, but the author says it is a focus on our own excessive pleasure

Question 19

what are the five forms of gluttony the author addresses

Answer 19

F.R.E.S.H.

Fastidious, Ravenous, Excessive, Sumptuous, Hasty

Question 20

What is fastidious gluttony?

Answer 20

a focus on WHAT we eat. Eating delicacies

Question 21

What distinguishes a “sumptuous” glutton?

Answer 21

a craving for rich and filling foods only

Question 22

D. says gluttony insatiability is the oppposite of _____ _____ and ____.

Answer 22

Goldy contentment and gratitude.

Question 23

What is the opposite vice of gluttony?

Answer 23

Deficiency

Question 24

What does the author suggest as the primary remedy for gluttony? what two primary thins does this remedy accomplish?

Answer 24

Fasting. We learn to appreciate and be content with simple foods

Question 25

How is gluttony a specific manifestations of pride?

Answer 25

Finding pleasure in a happiness we think we find ourselves

Question 26

Who famously prayed Lord give me charity and continence..but not yet?

Answer 26

Augustine

Question 27

What does D. say is the first step to dealing with lust?

Answer 27

acknowledging the goodness of sex.

Question 28

D. asks, what is sex and what is it for. what are the two words she uses?

Answer 28

An act to bond two bodies to form one/ Love and Life.

Question 29

what is the authors point in comparing sex to nitroglycerin?

Answer 29

It can blow up bridges or heal hearts.

Question 30

How is the vice of lust similar to the vice of gluttony?

Answer 30

The excessiveness reduces something designed for more than pleasure to mere pleasure and reduces even the fullness of the pleasure to mere self-gradification

Question 31

How is lust a manifestation of pride?

Answer 31

focused on ones own desires and "needs"

Question 32

How does lust view the body itslelf? How is this different from a properly christian view of the body?

Answer 32

Lust is irreverent about bodies and less obsessed with them. The body is a pleasure delivery device, to be used at will. Christians view is a place where God dwells, an image of the LIVING GOD

Question 33

what does the author say is her best advice for learning the resist lust?

Answer 33

have good friends

Question 34

Why is satiation an impediment to spiritual growth

Answer 34

receive

Question 35

What does tippers use for emptying the self?

Answer 35

Kenosis

Question 36

What does T. say penguins "teach us we are here to do.

Answer 36

to live and die for others

Question 37

When does Tippens say this pattern of self-emptying begins

Answer 37

the day we are born into christ through babtism

Question 38

what does T. mean by "false kenosis" and why is it dangerous?

Answer 38

it can be used as tool to control others.

Question 39

Tippens cites social historian Rodney Stark as arguing that the rapid growth of Christianity in the first four centuries was due to which "revolutionary practice"

Answer 39

To understand Christian faith, one must see that the gracious treatment of strangers is foundational. Generous respect

Question 40

What does T. say was a recurring theme of the OT as well as the central theme of Jesuss teaching and practice?

Answer 40

Sympathy and Identity with the stranger in ones own community.

Question 41

How did Jesus's version of hospitality go beyond typical understandings of hospitality to this day?

Answer 41

Generous heart and a welcoming spirit that leads to tangible expression of care for others

Question 42

What two things does T. recommend for learning to practice the radical hospitality of Jesus?

Answer 42

Mediate on Jesus's extraordinary hospitality towards us. Learn from the hospitality of hosts and hostesses who teach us the spirit of welcoming.

Question 43

What word did Juilian or Norwich use to describe Jesus? What did it mean in her day?

Answer 43

Homely/ meaning "intimate", "familiar" deeply affirming welcome.

Question 44

T. asks if we can welcome those with whom we disagree morally or theologically without being tainted ourselves. How does he answer this question. whom does he take as a model?

Answer 44

Jesus welcomed others to his table and so we can. Jesus was the model.

Question 45

How did Jesus' understanding of the Sabbath differ from many other Jews of his day.

Answer 45

Jesus did good works unlinke the jews kept it holy...Jesus rejected a joyless, legalistic interpretation of the Sabbath

Question 46

What american quality tends to work against a healthy not in of the Sabbath.

Answer 46

Productive s possible. Staying Busy.

Question 47

T. quotes Thomas Merton as saying Go into the desert not to escape from other men, but to _____

Answer 47

Find them in God

Question 48

What are the three movements of the spiritual life according to Tippens?

Answer 48

Solitude. Community. Service

Question 49

Our willingness to rest is a sign of.......

Answer 49

Faithfulness

Question 50

What does T. intend to communicate by using the word "attend?

Answer 50

to wait patiently for, to direct ones mind and energies towards something, to live expectantly to. To serve God faithfully

Question 51

Who in the oT met God in silence?

Answer 51

Elijah on Mt. Horeb

Question 52

What does T. suggest may be the deepest form of prayer

Answer 52

When we run out of things to say.

Question 53

What does T. say you can "get back" from periods of silence

Answer 53

in silence you can get your soul back your sense of self

Question 54

How is silence both protective and corrective

Answer 54

shields us from the forces that rob our souls of dignity and purity. It confronts the false messages that constantly flood our hearts

Question 55

Drawing upon sociological research. How does T. characterize American male relationships?

Answer 55

Generally good with side by side relationhships, but what they cannot do is face one other and engage in heartfelt conversation.

Question 56

What term does Tippens use to describe very close, spiritual friendships?

Answer 56

Soulfriend

Question 57

Mature freindships is rich in_____ and _____

Answer 57

Compassion and Self-Sacrafice

Question 58

How is suffering different from the other practices T. addresses in this book?

Answer 58

"practicing for difficult times and learning who difficulty ca activate a series of spiritual practices that inspire patience, courage, endurance, and deep faith.

Question 59

What does T. mean by "daytime and "night" and what kinds of answers/respones are appropriate fore each "time:

Answer 59

Day=Free of pain and doubt, rational arguments which explain why there is evil in a world of suffering in someones eslses life

Question 60

____ is often a necessary station on the road to great faith

Answer 60

Questioning

Question 61

Who is the greatest biblical example of someone who boldly protested against god in the midsts of suffering

Answer 61

Job

Question 62

the cost of ______ can be extraordinarily high, especially in communities of faith

Answer 62

Truthtelling

Question 63

An unconfessed Christian is an

Answer 63

Oxymoron

Question 64

What two incontrovertible facts lead us to central importance of truth telling

Answer 64

Everyone who lives is deeply hurt by others. Everyone who lives has deeply hurt others

Question 65

What is the first soul changing benefit T. attributes to confession

Answer 65

it challenges our pride

Question 66

what does confession bring to an end?

Answer 66

it ends our terrible isolation from God and from our brothers and sisters in faith

Question 67

What is the prayer of "examen"

Answer 67

a prayer in which we ask God to stiir up and awareness of our sin.

Question 68

Why is private confession insufficient?

Answer 68

we fool ourselves and can't hold ourselves accountable

Question 69

what is absolution and why does T. think it matters.

Answer 69

to loosen from our burden. we are forgiven

Question 70

what is the only petition in the Lords Prayer that is conditional

Answer 70

forgiveness

Question 71

When discussion how it is that forgiveness is possibleT says we must realize that forgiveness begins where? where does it NOT begin?

Answer 71

Beneath the cross God------Where does it not begin? WITH US

Question 72

According to T. what is one of the great impediments to forgiving others?

Answer 72

The difficulty of absolving ourselves. Often we feel bad about what we have done or left undone but rather than confess it.

Question 73

Jesus and the great saints point the way to _____ which is never easy because forgiveness.

Answer 73

SHALOM

Question 74

The faithful believer must be steeped in ____, ____, and ____

Answer 74

memory tradition and history

Question 75

why does the bible invite us to remember?

Answer 75

it is the great vehicle of spiritual identity and formation, and important supply for moral reflection.

Question 76

What does T. say is the first step in destroying personal faith?

Answer 76

Abandon your own personal faith.

Question 77

What does T. say communities should give special attention to meals?

Answer 77

It communicates values, beeches we put time and effort into meals. They generate common memories.