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Tables of Contents for Steering Through Chaos
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
The Trinity Forum Study Series Not So Much a Book as a Way of Thinking
7
6
Introduction
13
12
```The Lottery' Revisited''
25
6
Kay Haugaard
``The Story of Ruby Bridges''
31
4
Robert Coles
Pride
35
36
Pride (Superbia) Versus Poverty of Spirit
35
25
``The Great Sin''
41
7
C. S. Lewis
Paradise Lost
48
3
John Milton
``What Makes [Shirley] MacLaine Run?''
51
3
Nancy Collins
The Spire
54
6
William Golding
The Counterpoint to Pride: Blessed Are Those Who Are Poor in Spirit
60
11
``How Through Humility We Should Think Ourselves Mean and Abject in the Sight of God''
64
3
Thomas a Kempis
``Acts or Offices of Humility''
67
4
Jeremy Taylor
Envy
71
44
Envy (Invidia) Versus Mourning
71
34
Aristides
80
5
Plutarch
``Visions from Piers Plowman''
85
4
William Langland
The Scarlet Letter
89
3
Nathaniel Hawthorne
``Envy or Invidia''
92
6
Henry Fairlie
Amadeus
98
7
Peter Shaffer
The Counterpoint to Envy: Blessed Are Those Who Mourn
105
10
Les Miserables
107
4
Victor Hugo
``Committed Body Rules,'' ``How to Cope with Evil-Speaking''
111
4
John Wesley
Charles Simeon
Anger
115
34
Anger (Ira) Versus Meekness
115
22
``Alexander''
120
5
Plutarch
``On Anger''
125
3
Seneca
``Rage, Rage''
128
4
John Weir
``The Fascination Begins in the Mouth''
132
5
Mary Gordon
The Counterpoint to Anger: Blessed Are the Meek
137
12
``Forgiveness''
139
4
C. S. Lewis
``Loving Your Enemies''
143
6
Martin Luther King Jr.
Sloth
149
24
Sloth (Acedia) Versus Hunger for Righteousness
149
18
Pensees
153
4
Blaise Pascal
``On the Wickedness of the Age''
157
2
Søren Kierkegaard
The Other Six Deadly Sins
159
3
Dorothy L. Sayers
Letters to Olga
162
5
Vaclav Havel
The Counterpoint to Sloth: Blessed Are Those Who Hunger for Righteousness
167
6
``Holy Sonnet''
168
2
John Donne
``Love (III)''
170
3
George Herbert
Avarice
173
38
Avarice (Avaritia) Versus Mercy
173
32
``The Pardoner's Prologue''
177
6
Geoffrey Chaucer
``How Much Land Does a Man Need?''
183
15
Leo Tolstoy
Shantung Compound
198
7
Langdon Gilkey
The Counterpoint to Avarice: Blessed Are Those Who Are Merciful
205
6
``The Bishop at Work''
206
5
Victor Hugo
Gluttony
211
28
Gluttony (Gula) Versus Courage Under Suffering and Persecution
211
23
The Satyricon
216
1
Petronius
Time magazine, ``The Importance of Being Greedy''
217
2
The Screwtape Letters
219
3
C. S. Lewis
``The Gluttony of Our Age''
222
5
Henry Fairlie
``The Dwarves in the Stable''
227
7
Frederick Buechner
The Counterpoint to Gluttony: Blessed Are Those Who Are Persecuted for Righteousness' Sake
234
5
``Of Patient Suffering of Injuries and Wrongs and Who Is Truly Patient''
235
2
Thomas a Kempis
John of the Cross, ``On the Divine Light''
237
2
Lust
239
32
Lust (Luxuria) Versus Purity of Heart
239
21
or the Feast with the Statue
245
3
Moliere
Don Juan
The Rainbow
248
8
D. H. Lawrence
``A Prayer for Marilyn Monroe''
256
4
Ernesto Cardenal
The Counterpoint to Lust: Blessed Are the Pure in Heart
260
11
Confessions
261
5
Augustine
``False Worship: Impurity of Heart''
266
5
William F. May
CONCLUSION: Five Reminders
271
33
``Moral Goodness''
273
31
Aristotle
``Self-Deception''
277
5
Samuel Johnson
Shantung Compound
282
7
Langdon Gilkey
``Christian Behaviour'' and The Weight of Glory
289
5
C. S. Lewis
Orbit of Darkness
294
7
Maximilian Kolbe
Ian MacMillan
Corrie ten Boom, ``Love Your Enemy''
301
3
For Further Reading
304
1
Reader's Guide
305