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The Noonday Devil: Acedia, the Unnamed Evil of Our Times By Jean-Charles Nault, OSB, Ignatius, 2014, 205 pp., ISBN 978-158617-939-7, $16.95 (paper).
Jean-Charles Nault is the abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of SaintWandrille in Normandy, France. He is also a doctor of theology who has written extensively on the subject of acedia, the capital sin commonly, though somewhat misleadingly, known as "sloth." In The Noonday Devil, he presents, over the course of four chapters, a study of acedia that skillfully weaves together a survey of the classical theological understandings of this vice with an...