How To Use Concupiscence In A Sentence
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In one act of mortification one can practice many virtues, according to the different ends which one proposes in each act, as for example: 1. He who mortifies his body for the purpose of checking concupiscence, performs an act of the virtue of temperance.
Archive 2009-03-15
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Fahey called the forces of unorganized naturalism, that is, the concupiscence of each one of us, our own tendency to sin.
Christendom's Building Blocks — Catholic Communities
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None of us here will be sinless, that is free of the full dangers and lures of concupiscence, until we are made perfect either after death or at Christ's coming - whichever come first.
The Continuum
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¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: for which things 'sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: in the which ye also walked sometime, when ye lived in them.
Colossians 3.
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And what these are he himself explains: "Fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence; and covetousness, which is idolatry.
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Pregnant with concupiscence, she beseeched him.
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First, on account of the violence of its onslaught; thus anger is violent in its onslaught on account of its impetuosity; and "still more difficult is it to resist concupiscence, on account of its connaturality," as stated in _Ethic. _ ii, 3, 9.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Salutary and worthwhile it is to remind yourself sometimes of how prone you are to what the great Karl Rahner described as ‘mental concupiscence.’
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For Augustine, in a long discussion refutes the opinion of those who thought that concupiscence in man is not a fault but an adiaphoron, as color of the body or ill health is said to be an adiaphoron [as to have a black or a white body is neither good nor evil].
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
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Her eyes were wild with concupiscence, and her hair spilled around them like a screen of privacy.
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The theologians have given the name concupiscence or concupiscible appetite to the passionate greed for sensual things, the effect, according to them, of original sin.
System of Economical Contradictions: or, the Philosophy of Misery
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According to Augustine, sin is concupiscence: that is, a compelling desire or drive to serve one's self rather than God.
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Also, that depraved concupiscences are not sin, but certain concreate conditions and essential properties of the nature, or that those defects and that huge evil just set forth by us is not sin on whose account man, if not grafted into Christ, is a child of wrath.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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It's a deep fear and a sort of intellectual concupiscence since it's easy for me to believe, despite the promises of Christ.
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The popular tale, as rendered here, is gluey with preaching about a society, dominated by greed, megalomania, and more than a touch of concupiscence, that predictably neglects its offspring.
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Any distortion of this form is judged a result of Original Sin, evidenced by concupiscence affecting human sexual desire and labeled ‘disorder.’
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Pickaxe, grosse feeding and labour, do quench al sensual and fleshly concupiscence, yea, in such as till and husband the ground, by making them dull, blockish, and (almost) meere senslesse of understanding.
The Decameron
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From gym memberships never used to Robbie Williams CDs never played, this surplus of concupiscence costs at least $10.5 billion a year.
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Don't worry: he'll get both back, in a climax that mixes concupiscence with capitalism.
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[3] It may remove ambiguity to say that the word concupiscence is here used not in its popular and modern, but its theological acceptation.
Outlines of Moral Science.
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But the Catholic tradition holds that human perfection lies in loving God, and the means to this goal include freedom from concupiscence and the death of the will.
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I find it wonderful to consider, from times so long ago, the envy of Cain, the concupiscence of Delilah, the fidelity and failure of Lot.
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Nor, indeed, have we only made use of the term concupiscence, but we have also said that "the fear of God and faith are wanting.
Apology of the Augsburg Confession
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But I say that, after it has been impressed and inculcated on the minds of hearers or readers that the apostle is treating about a regenerate man in Romans 7, it is not in our power to hinder such persons from understanding the rest of those things which are attributed to this man in a different manner from that in which they ought to be understood, that is, from receiving them in an acceptation which is not agreeable to the text and design of the apostle, and as they are not received when they are explained as relating to a man who is under sin, and under the law, especially when the inclination is a persuasive to such an interpretation, and when the concupiscence of the flesh gives a similar impulse.
The Works of James Arminius, Vol. 2
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This concupiscible appetite, howsoever it may seem to carry with it a show of pleasure and delight, and our concupiscences most part affect us with content and a pleasing object, yet if they be in extremes, they rack and wring us on the other side.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Instead, the mists of passion steamed up out of the puddly concupiscence of the flesh, and the hot imagination of puberty, and they so obscured and overcast my heart that I was unable to distinguish pure affection from unholy desire.
Confessions and Enchiridion, newly translated and edited by Albert C. Outler
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Snoopiness, gossip, toying with the occult, reluctance to do what is good, forgetfulness of God's will, factionalism, and many other failings are as much manifestations of concupiscence as disordered sexual impulses.
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The necessary frustration of desirousness or concupiscence is the chief feature of the calcinatio stage.
Boing Boing
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To indulge the lust of concupiscence is to live and act like heathens?
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin [was] dead.
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How many of us would welcome a dose of concupiscence, when the grinding realities of sickness and need have drained the body of all its sap and sweetness, just as a reminder of being sentient!
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Our attraction to the sin in the world and to the temptations of the devil is called concupiscence, and is defined by the Catechism of the Catholic Church as an ‘inclination to evil’.
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Baius fell under censure for asserting (Props. 74, 75) that "concupiscence in the baptized is a sin, though not imputed.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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And what could be more objectifying of women than speaking as though birth control were something that only served male concupiscence?
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Sin has much more weakened man's will than darkened his intellect, and the rebellion of the sensual appetite, which we call concupiscence, does indeed disturb the understanding, but still it is against the will that it principally stirs up sedition and revolt: so that the poor will, already quite infirm, being shaken with the continual assaults which concupiscence directs against it, cannot make so great progress in divine love as reason and natural inclination suggest to it that it should do.
Treatise on the Love of God
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When Servetus wrote Christianity Restored he sought to expose a corruption, as he saw it, far deeper and more endemic than the concupiscence of a Borgia Pope.
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As St Thomas Aquinas, no lightweight himself, put it, ‘gluttony denotes inordinate concupiscence in eating’.
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Paul described with agonizing detail how he suffered from ‘all manner of concupiscence.’
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(Rom., viii, l); and why, according to James (i, 14 sqq.), concupiscence as such is really no sin; and it is apparent that St. Paul (Rom., vii, 17) is speaking only figuratively when he calls concupiscence sin, because it springs from sin and brings sin in its train.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
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Marvell attacks the concupiscence of the King's mistress, Lady Castlemaine, twice in Last Instructions to a Painter.
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In its widest acceptation, concupiscence is any yearning of the soul for good; in its strict and specific acceptation, a desire of the lower appetite contrary to reason.
The Purity of Mary
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As Augustine just discussed in the Christian Heritage quote for today, concupiscence becomes sin - and thus a barrier between us and God - only when we consent to its desires, not simply when we experience and manfully resist them.
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My response is that concupiscence dwells "objectively" in the body, and continues its "objective" presence in the body throughout the course of our infralapsarian existence; and that we should expect holiness to "trump" temptations or disordered tendencies in the area of sexuality exactly as often as we should expect holiness to "trump" the reality of having to undergo death.
David L. Schindler criticizes Christopher West's work with TOTB
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However, the word concupiscence is constantly used for that appetite which exists in fallen man and is an incentive to sin, because it seeks forbidden objects or permissible in an forbidden way.
Archive 2009-03-22
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Not that fasting is a thing of itself to be discommended, for it is an excellent means to keep the body in subjection, a preparative to devotion, the physic of the soul, by which chaste thoughts are engendered, true zeal, a divine spirit, whence wholesome counsels do proceed, concupiscence is restrained, vicious and predominant lusts and humours are expelled.
Anatomy of Melancholy