An Evening with Author Ed Simon

Schedule

Tue Jan 07 2025 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Riverstone Books | Pittsburgh, PA

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Local author Ed Simon joins us to talk about the final installment in his trilogy titled Seven Heavenly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues
About this Event

We hope you will join us to hear from local author Ed Simon about his newest book, The Seven Deadly Sins and Seven Heavenly Virtues. We will have time for Q&A with the audience after the talk followed by a time for book signing.

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About the author:

Ed Simon is Special Faculty for Public Humanities in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and editor of Belt Magazine. A widely published author, his most recent books include Devil's Contract: The History of the Faustian Bargain and The Soul of Pittsburgh: Essays on Life, Community and History.

About the book:

A captivating artistic and philosophic exploration of humankind’s complex moral codes
A companion piece to Pandemonium: A Visual History of Demonology and Elysium: A Visual History of Angelology, Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will complete this moral trilogy and finally consider God’s most enigmatic of creations: None of the conundrums of metaphysics are as baroque as the motivations of the human soul. Unlike the devils condemned to perdition and the angels compelled to paradise, humans are divine creatures that house within them warring impulses.
Seven Sins and Seven Virtues will examine the literary, philosophical, theological, and most of all artistic expressions of the seven deadly sins and their respective seven cardinal virtues, drawing upon millennia of history to gather a compendium of humanity at its best and its worst. As a volume, the book will explore the Manichean nature of the human animal in all of its grandeur and canker, motivated by the faith that tales of damnation and salvation are the only stories that are ultimately worth telling.

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Riverstone Books, 5841 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, United States

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