10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «VAINGLORY»
Discover the use of
vainglory in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
vainglory and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
This edition also includes a chronology and further reading.
Ronald Firbank, Richard Canning, 2012
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Thoughts Matter: Discovering the Spiritual Journey
In "Thoughts Matter," Mary Margaret Funk focuses on the second of these: renouncing the thoughts belonging to one's former way of life.
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The Text and Contexts of Ignatius Loyola's "Autobiography"
In addition to pride, therefore, vainglory was also associated with lust and with
envy and avarice as well. Applying the words of 1 Iohn 2:16 to the temptations of
Iesus in the Gospels, spiritual writers generally agreed that all disordered
passions ...
Chrysostom commenting on the same text says of vainglory that "it enters secretly
and imperceptihly steals all our interior goods. "H But only mortal sin takes away
interior and spiritual goods. Therefore, vainglory is a mortal sin. 3. Job 3 t ...
Thomas Aquinas, University of Oxford Brian Davies O.P. Regent of Studies Blackfriars College, 2003
[RHW] VAINGLORY. By vainglory is meant vanity, pomp, boasting, and other
types of ostentatious display. Patristic and scholastic authorities closely
associated vainglory (inanis or vana gloria) with pride* (superbia), but where a
distinction ...
William Bridges Hunter, 1980
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A. W. Pink's Studies in the Scriptures
A.W.P. VAINGLORY. "Doing nothing through strife or vainglory, but in lowliness of
mind each esteeming others better than himself" (Phil. 2:3). Vainglory is specially
a sin of "spiritual" people. True, we see in the fops (dudes) of the world a glory ...
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The Practice of Christian and Religious Perfection
This is a very profitable consideration, on which we ought to set a great value, as
being a means well calculated to free us from the danger of vainglory. Do not
therefore aspire to the esteem of men, for fear that God should make them to be
the ...
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Glittering Vices: A New Look at the Seven Deadly Sins and ...
It could be a student who plagiarizes a paper to get a better grade and win the
approval of her parents or teachers. The worst sort of vainglory, however,
according to Thomas Aquinas, occurs when we fail to give due glory to God as
the source ...
Rebecca Konyndyk DeYoung, 2009
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Nil Sorsky, the Complete Writings
VAINGLORY We must be very vigilant against the spirit of vanity because it
hinders all of our intentions with all kinds of allurements. It impedes the monk's
true progress by corrupting all his actions so that, no longer ordered to God, they
...
Saint Nil (Sorskiĭ), George A. Maloney, 2003
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Loyola's Acts: The Rhetoric of the Self
The generation of his scrupulosity from the vice of vainglory is patent from the
place of the pinnacle in the paradigmatic temptation. That was not the temptation
of the stylites but of Jesus himself. After his baptism Jesus was led by the Spirit
into ...
Marjorie O'Rourke Boyle, 1997
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «VAINGLORY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
vainglory is used in the context of the following news items.
Vainglory leaves beta with 1.5M monthly active players — a rarity for …
Super Evil Megacorp announced today that is Vainglory mobile multiplayer online battle arena game has been formally launched, and it already has 1.5 million ... «VentureBeat, Jul 15»
'Vainglory' Update Goes Live Ahead of Official Launch
While folks in certain regions are eagerly waiting for Super Evil Megacorp's Vainglory [Free] to launch worldwide (along with Android support) on July 2nd, those ... «Touch Arcade, Jun 15»
'Vainglory' Officially Releases July 2nd, Adds Android Support, New …
While Vainglory [Free], the made-for-mobile MOBA, has been out for a while now, it hasn't "officially" launched according to its developers, Super Evil Mecacorp ... «Touch Arcade, Jun 15»
Can a mobile game be 'five times bigger' as an eSport than League …
Super Evil Megacorp, meanwhile, has been adding features to Vainglory to respond ... Now that's led to the deal with ESL, which will run a Vainglory Cup Series ... «The Guardian, May 15»
Vainglory Dev: eSports will be Bigger on Mobile than on PC Soon
Kristian Segerstrale, the COO of Super Evil Megacorp, the creator of mobile MOBA Vainglory, reckons that eSports is going to get a lot bigger on mobile. «MMORPG News, May 15»
'Vainglory' Update Introduces Skins, Collectible Cards
Super Evil Megacorp's hit mobile MOBA Vainglory [Free / Free] has been steadily adding content in terms of new heroes, UI modifications and countless balance ... «Touch Arcade, May 15»
Vainglory dev hires former Wargaming exec to tap into MOBA-crazy …
based Super Evil Megacorp, where he will hire on new talent and establish new partnerships for Vainglory. He'll also use it as a base to expand the mobile ... «VentureBeat, Apr 15»
Super Evil Megacorp hires to push Vainglory into Asia
Vainglory developer Super Evil Megacorp has hired Taewon Yun as the company's new general manager for the Asia Pacific region (APAC). «Pocket Gamer.Biz, Apr 15»
'Vainglory' Update and New Hero Vox Hits Today
Late last night, the folks at Super Evil Megacorp released the update details on its upcoming 1.3 patch to its mobile MOBA, Vainglory [Free / Free]. The biggest ... «Touch Arcade, Apr 15»
New 'Vainglory' Hero Reveal - Say Hello to Vox, the Mobile Sniper
During its Friday night Twitch stream, developer Super Evil Megacorp revealed the new hero for its popular MOBA Vainglory [Free]. Vainglory's new hero is Vox, ... «Touch Arcade, Mar 15»
