One of the questions medieval theologians wrestled with is where and how to locate the ‘sins of speech.’ If the moral life is organized by the “mortal” sins of pride, avarice, lust, and so on, where do those sins that stem from the tongue belong? The question was never settled definitively, in part because it couldn’t be: sins of speech might embody any…
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