Introduction

Gula: I deal with vices or sins always as parasitic upon virtues. They're always a disordered virtue. So it's really important when we talk about gluttony to think about fasting because gluttony is the corresponding vice to the virtue of fasting. It's that movement from purgation to illumination that is the center of the journey of Christianity, of the spiritual life. The kind of social nature of sin has been recaptured and reformulated in the 20th century.