Home›Vices›TraditionBrowse ByTraditionThis page groups vices by the religion that names and teaches against them. Wikipedia notes that the seven deadly sins "function as a grouping of major vices within the teachings of Christianity." Browsing by tradition lets a visitor read every vice named by the same religion together.FactsLearn MoreTraditionSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedFaults a tradition names and warns against, given in its own list with the reason it holds them harmful. The lists are not equivalents: the Latin capital vices are a catalogue of sins ordered by gravity, while the Buddhist and yogic kleshas are an analysis of what obstructs the mind, and neither is a translation of the other. 1Size of the Traditional SetWell-attestedSeven capital vices in the Latin Christian list fixed by Gregory the Great 2OriginsWhose Classification This IsWell-attestedThe familiar seven are Latin Christian. Evagrius Ponticus listed eight evil thoughts in the late fourth century, John Cassian carried them west, and Gregory the Great reduced and reordered them to seven around 590. The list went on moving through the Middle Ages before settling into its modern form. It is not a universal scheme. 3Learn MoreThe Faults the Traditions Warn Against This category holds the vices, the faults that moral and spiritual traditions name and warn against. It gathers the seven deadly sins of Christian teaching: pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath and sloth, each with its Latin name and the demon later tradition attached to it. Each entry gives a vice in the terms the tradition names it, the reason it is held to be harmful, and, where the tradition draws the pairing, the virtue set against it.How traditions count them The seven deadly sins themselves went through several forms before settling into the familiar list: the Western scheme descends from the eight thoughts of Evagrius Ponticus, revised by Gregory the Great into the seven, and the ordering by seriousness varied from one authority to another. The entries note these shifts rather than presenting the list as fixed. The vices connect to the virtues, with which the tradition pairs them, and to the demons that later writers assigned to each. The virtues set against them are treated in their own category.TraditionFilter Results7 entriesAdherents Today MaximumAll5,000,000 (1)14,800,000 (1)30,000,000 (1)324,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Adherents Today MinimumAll4,000,000 (1)14,800,000 (1)25,000,000 (1)324,000,000 (1)1,200,000,000 (1)2,000,000,000 (1)2,300,000,000 (1)Basis of the Membership FigureAllIndependent Survey (5)National Census (2)Scholarly or Demographic Estimate (5)Establishment StatusAllDeclared Not Established (1)Disestablished (1)Varies by Province (4)How the Expectation Is EnforcedAllCodified Obligation With Consequences (1)Customary Norm (4)Obligation to Support, No Set Rate (1)Membership Figure As OfAll2001-01-01 (1)2001-03-01 (1)2010-01-01 (4)2011-01-01 (1)2011-01-27 (1)2011-03-01 (1)2011-12-19 (1)2012-12-18 (2)2013-01-01 (1)2020-01-01 (5)2021-01-01 (1)Origin Period End YearAll500 BCE (1)400 BCE (3)50 (1)632 (1)1708 (1)Origin Period Start YearAll1500 BCE (1)600 BCE (1)586 BCE (1)500 BCE (1)30 (1)610 (1)1499 (1)Position on MarriageAllMarriage is held to be monogamous, with remarriage after divorce sanctioned under specified conditions (1)Marriage may licitly be polygynous (1)Position on SexualityAllSame-sex orientation or practice is held to bar full membership or participation (2)The body holds no single settled position; the question is actively and openly contested within it (2)Position on UsuryAllInterest is permitted but bound by ethical constraints against exploiting the poor (1)Interest of any kind on a loan is forbidden (1)Practice StatusAllLiving, and practised in varied local forms (4)Partly restricted: some elements are closed to outsiders (3)Standard Rate ExpectedAllTen percent. (2)Two and a half percent. (1)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (7)TheologyAllMonistic: one ultimate reality behind all appearance (1)Monotheistic: one God (4)Non-theistic: no creator god is central (2)Panentheistic: the divine both within the world and beyond it (1)Polytheistic: many gods (1)Show ResultsBrowseCompareBuddhismTradition5 entriesChristianityTradition7 entriesHinduismTradition6 entriesIslamTradition5 entriesJainismTradition4 entriesJudaismTradition1 entrySikhismTradition5 entriesSources1. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the Source2. Moralia in Jobtier 1Gregory the Greatbk. XXXI3. The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literaturetier 1Morton W. Bloomfield, Michigan State College Press, 1952View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.