LUST
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'Lust' is any intense desire or craving for self gratification. Lust can mean strictly sexual lust, although it is also common to speak of a ''"lust for life"'', ''"lust for blood (bloodlust'' for short'')"'', or a ''"lust for power"'' or other goals. The Greek word which translates as lust is ''epithymia'' (επιθυμια), which also is translated into English as "to covet".
The word is derived from the Old English term for desire, and ultimately from a Germanic which also originated High German ''lust'' ('wish, desire'). In German, the word ''Lust'' denotes simply "desire".
Obsolete uses include lust in the sense of pleasure, or relish.
Catholic tradition considers lust to be one of the main sins or vices.
Roman Catholic Church teaches that lust is one of the seven capital vices, popularly known as the seven deadly sins. A vice, according to this tradition, is a "habit inclining one to sin" [1]. The specific sins to which lust may lead are fornication, adultery, incest, criminal assault, abduction, sodomy, rape, and others. [2]. However, "Such guilt as [one] may have contracted in any case is charged directly to the sinful act, not to the vice;" [3] in other words, it is the specific sins, and not the vice itself, which deprive one's soul of sanctifying grace and make one deserving of God's punishment.
According to some Christian sources [4], reprobates whose chief unforgiven sin is lust are punished in Hell by being "smothered in fire and brimstone." However, while most Christian traditions agree that at some point after death the damned individuals find themselves in a hell where they suffer punishment for their sins, most traditions also agree that one can only speculate regarding the precise nature of any punishment above and beyond the principal torment, which comes simply from being totally separated from God.
According to The Divine Comedy, penance who are guilty of lust cleanse their soul of the sin by walking through flames, thereby purging their minds of all lustful thoughts.
A frequent visual symbol for the sin of lust is the color blue; for instance, that is the color of the cover of the book ''Lust'' in The Seven Deadly Sins series published by the Oxford University Press.
Another symbol of lust is the animal cow (or bull). An example of this appears in the engraving ''Shamelessness'' [1] by the 16th century artist Georg Pencz.
★ Limerence
★ List of ethics topics
★ ''Sexual love'': List of sexology topics, Sexual attraction, Libido, Seduction, Pornography
★ Sexual function
★ Brighella
★ Sigmund Freud
★ Froböse, Gabriele, Rolf Froböse, and Michael Gross (translator). ''Lust and Love: Is it more than Chemistry?'' Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006. ISBN 0-85404-867-7.
1. A. von Bartsch, J. Heller, and R. Weigel, ''Le peintre graveur,'' vol. 8, ed. J. A. Barth (Leipzig, 1866). see the "L'impudicité" heading.
★ "The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust" National Public Radio feature
Etymology
The word is derived from the Old English term for desire, and ultimately from a Germanic which also originated High German ''lust'' ('wish, desire'). In German, the word ''Lust'' denotes simply "desire".
Obsolete uses include lust in the sense of pleasure, or relish.
Lust in the context of religion
Christianity—General
Catholic tradition considers lust to be one of the main sins or vices.
Christianity—Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholic Church teaches that lust is one of the seven capital vices, popularly known as the seven deadly sins. A vice, according to this tradition, is a "habit inclining one to sin" [1]. The specific sins to which lust may lead are fornication, adultery, incest, criminal assault, abduction, sodomy, rape, and others. [2]. However, "Such guilt as [one] may have contracted in any case is charged directly to the sinful act, not to the vice;" [3] in other words, it is the specific sins, and not the vice itself, which deprive one's soul of sanctifying grace and make one deserving of God's punishment.
Punishment in the afterlife
According to some Christian sources [4], reprobates whose chief unforgiven sin is lust are punished in Hell by being "smothered in fire and brimstone." However, while most Christian traditions agree that at some point after death the damned individuals find themselves in a hell where they suffer punishment for their sins, most traditions also agree that one can only speculate regarding the precise nature of any punishment above and beyond the principal torment, which comes simply from being totally separated from God.
Repentance in Purgatory
According to The Divine Comedy, penance who are guilty of lust cleanse their soul of the sin by walking through flames, thereby purging their minds of all lustful thoughts.
Symbolic representations
A frequent visual symbol for the sin of lust is the color blue; for instance, that is the color of the cover of the book ''Lust'' in The Seven Deadly Sins series published by the Oxford University Press.
Another symbol of lust is the animal cow (or bull). An example of this appears in the engraving ''Shamelessness'' [1] by the 16th century artist Georg Pencz.
See also
★ Limerence
★ List of ethics topics
★ ''Sexual love'': List of sexology topics, Sexual attraction, Libido, Seduction, Pornography
★ Sexual function
★ Brighella
★ Sigmund Freud
References
★ Froböse, Gabriele, Rolf Froböse, and Michael Gross (translator). ''Lust and Love: Is it more than Chemistry?'' Royal Society of Chemistry, 2006. ISBN 0-85404-867-7.
1. A. von Bartsch, J. Heller, and R. Weigel, ''Le peintre graveur,'' vol. 8, ed. J. A. Barth (Leipzig, 1866). see the "L'impudicité" heading.
External links
★ "The Seven Deadly Sins: Lust" National Public Radio feature
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