Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

The deadly sins and saving virtues: How they are viewed by laity

  • Articles
  • Published:
Pastoral Psychology Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Backus, D. (1969).The seven deadly sins: Their meaning and measurement. Doctoral dissertation, University of Minnesota. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University Microfilms, Inc.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Capps, D. (1987).Deadly sins and saving virtues. Philadelphia: Fortress Press.

    Google Scholar 

  3. Chernin, K. (1985).The hungry self: Women, eating and identity. New York: Harper and Row.

    Google Scholar 

  4. Daly, M. (1978).Gyn/Ecology: The metaethics of radical feminism. Boston: Beacon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Daly, M. (1984).Pure lust. Boston: Beacon Press.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Erikson, E. (1962).Childhood and society, 2nd. rev. ed. New York: W.W. Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  7. Erikson, E. (1964). Human strength and the cycle of generations.Insight and responsibility (pp. 111–57). New York: W.W. Norton.

    Google Scholar 

  8. Fairlie, H. (1979).The seven deadly sins today. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press.

    Google Scholar 

  9. Gallup Report (1987).Religion in America, report no. 259. Princeton, New Jersey.

  10. Grant, B. (1982).From sin to wholeness. Philadelphia: Westminster Press.

    Google Scholar 

  11. Lyman, S. (1978).The seven deadly sins: Society and evil. New York: St. Martin's Press.

    Google Scholar 

  12. Menninger, K. (1973).Whatever became of sin? New York: Hawthorne Books.

    Google Scholar 

  13. Slack, K. (1985).The seven deadly sins: A contemporary view. London: SCM Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Princeton Theological Seminary, USA

    Donald Capps

Authors
  1. Donald Capps
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Additional information

I want to thank Timothy Sahr and Grafton Eliason, students at Princeton Theological Seminary, for their assistance with various technical aspects of this study. I also want to thank the faculty grants committee of Princeton Theological Seminary for acting favorably on my request for funding the project, and express my appreciation to the pastors who assisted in the distribution and collection of the inventory that was prepared for this study. Students in my doctoral seminar in “Theology and the Personality Sciences,” to whom an earlier draft of this paper was presented, made a number of comments and suggestions that have been incorporated into the final draft. My sincere appreciation to them as well.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Capps, D. The deadly sins and saving virtues: How they are viewed by laity. Pastoral Psychol 37, 229–253 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01763877

Download citation

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01763877

Keywords

Search

Navigation