Pride and Humility: Lent 2022

In the first real episode of the Lent Seven Capital Vices series, meet the Queen of the Vices, Pride, and the foundation of the virtues, Humility. Hear from Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Jane Austen, moral philosophers and theologians of today, and several medieval manuals on pride and humility, on self-deception and self-knowledge, presumption and arrogance, childlikeness and good pride, and more...

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Listening to the past can help us to understand our present, but it is so difficult to read ancient works of literature and theology alone. I’m Dr. Grace Hamman, a scholar of medieval literature and mother of three. Old Books With Grace shares my love for old books and listens to the wisdom emanating from these long dead voices. My hope is that Old Books With Grace will empower you to approach often intimidating works of literature and theology and as a result, ask questions of our current age. We live in a time that values the new and the now more than ever. But I truly believe that these books speak outside of the echo-chambers in which we so often find ourselves and help us to find ageless truth from lost centuries.