TOKENS PODCAST: S5E10
Are the “seven deadly sins” merely a lingering product of medieval-era fearful reflection upon divine finger-pointing? Rebecca DeYoung explains why, seen rightly, the framework of the seven deadly sins is better understood as a sort of pastoral diagnostic tool, to help unearth some of the most common and perennial habits that threaten to undo any semblance of a flourishing human life, to undo any substantive pursuit of joy.
ABOUT THE GUEST
Rebecca DeYoung (Ph.D. 2000, University of Notre Dame) has enjoyed teaching ethics and the history of ancient and medieval philosophy at Calvin University for over 20 years. Her research focuses on the seven deadly sins and Thomas Aquinas’s work on virtue. Her books include Glittering Vices (Brazos, 2009, 2nd edition 2020), Vainglory (Eerdmans 2014), and a co-authored volume titled Aquinas’s Ethics (University of Notre Dame Press 2009). Recent essays on individual vices and virtues—hope, despair, sloth, courage, magnanimity, wrath, and vainglory—appear in Virtues and Their Vices (Oxford), Being Good (Eerdmans), the Cambridge Critical Guide to Aquinas’s De Malo (Cambridge), Faith and Virtue Formation (Oxford University Press), and scholarly journals including Res Philosophica, ACPQ, the Thomist, and Faith and Philosophy. Awards for her work include the Book and Essay Prize from the Character Project and the C.S. Lewis prize for Glittering Vices. She speaks widely, including work with Renovare.org and opportunities to teach the incarcerated.
She and her husband Scot live in Grand Rapids, near the beautiful Lake Michigan shoreline. They have four children ages 15-22.
ABOUT TOKENS SHOW & LEE C. CAMP
Tokens began in 2008. Our philosophical and theological variety shows and events hosted throughout the Nashville area imagine a world governed by hospitality, graciousness and joy; life marked by beauty, wonder and truthfulness; and social conditions ordered by justice, mercy and peace-making. We exhibit tokens of such a world in music-making, song-singing, and conversations about things that matter. We have fun, and we make fun: of religion, politics, and marketing. And ourselves. You might think of us as something like musicians without borders; or as poets, philosophers, theologians and humorists transgressing borders.
Lee is an Alabamian by birth, a Tennessean by choice, and has sojourned joyfully in Indiana, Texas, and Nairobi. He likes to think of himself as a radical conservative, or an orthodox liberal; loves teaching college and seminary students at Lipscomb University; delights in flying sailplanes; finds dark chocolate covered almonds with turbinado sea salt to be one of the finest confections of the human species; and gives great thanks for his lovely wife Laura, his three sons, and an abundance of family and friends, here in Music City and beyond. Besides teaching full-time, he hosts Nashville’s Tokens Show, and has authored three books. Lee has an Undergrad Degree in computer science (Lipscomb University, 1989); M.A. in theology and M.Div. (Abilene Christian University, 1993); M.A. and Ph.D. both in Christian Ethics (University of Notre Dame, 1999).
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