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On the Seven Deadly Sins

On the Seven Deadly Sins

by Kenneth Baker
Hardback
Publication Date: 15/09/2018

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In this fascinating book Kenneth Baker explores how the Seven Deadly Sins Pride, Anger, Sloth, Envy, Avarice, Gluttony and Lust have shaped history from the Greek and Roman Civilisations, through their heyday in the Middle Ages, when sinners really believed they could go to Hell for all eternity, to the secular world of today, where they are still an alluring and destructive force. Today most sinners are punished in this world not the next:

  • Black Pride and Gay Pride have made tens of millions more understood and more accepted, but the overweening pride of certain leaders – Hubris – has led to wars and devastation: Hitler in Russia; the Japanese at Pearl Harbour; Saddam Hussein in Kuwait; and Blair and Bush in Iraq. 
  • Anger, when righteous, can be a virtue, which helped to end the slave trade in the 19th century and to expose child abuse today, but there is still personal anger in domestic violence and Daesh terrorism. 
  • Sloth can be an amiable weakness as Tennyson said, ‘Ah why should life all labour be’, but the rewards go to the energetic. 
  • Envy is the mainstay of the global advertising industry encouraging everyone to improve their lives, but it is also a secret vice, a self-destroying morbid appetite.
  • Avarice, has led to better living conditions for many people but also to the Great Depression, the financial collapse of 2008, and to 1,800 billionaires with the combined wealth of US $6.48 trillion.
  • Gluttony is not a sin but a destructive ailment leading to obesity, bottle-noses, bleary eyes, grog-blossoms and breath like a blowlamp. 
  • Lust that demands immediate gratification is clearly still a sin, whether Paris’ abduction of Helen of Troy, or websites that encourage marital infidelity, or the fate of many politicians, as Kipling said, ‘For the sins they do by two and two, they must pay for one by one.’

This book is lavishly illustrated from Medieval manuscripts to Picasso, and Kenneth Baker has drawn on his knowledge of cartoons down the ages to include a few by Gillray, Rowlandson, Bateman, Eric Gill and today Peter Brookes.

ISBN:
9781911604136
9781911604136
Category:
History of art / art & design styles
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
15-09-2018
Language:
English
Publisher:
Unicorn Publishing Group
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
266.7x228.6x30.48mm
Kenneth Baker

Kenneth Baker, Lord Baker of Dorking CH, is a British politician and a former Conservative MP having served in the Cabinets of Margaret Thatcher and John Major as Environment Secretary, Education Secretary and Home Secretary.

He has previously written five poetry anthologies for Faber, five books on the history of cartoons including George III: A Life in Caricature and George IV: A Life in Caricature, his memoirs, The Turbulent Years, and most recently On the Burning of Books published by Unicorn in 2016.

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