Preface
Tilby: Angela: The Seven Deadly Sins: Their Origin in the Spiritual Teaching of Evagrius The Hermit, SPCK, 2009, ISBN 9780281056323 (commission earned), ppI-IX, 223
The Seven Deadly Sins: Pride, anger, lust, gluttony, avarice, sloth; some include vainglory; avarice sometimes replaced by covetousness; and many lists contain envy.
Characterised by Pope Gregory the Great (r 590-604); Evagrius of Pontus (c345-399), monk of the upper Egyptian desert; thought sin a sickness needing careful diagnosis; he was subsequently branded a heretic, notably by his pupil John Cassian (c360-c442) who, not naming him, changed elements of what he had written. He never called them "deadly" sins but Logismoi, or false rationalisations.
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