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In this and the next chapter, we move to another world: the fundamental sources of pride and hubris as a sin in the Jewish and Christian religions. The study of pride is inconceivable without the theological dimension. The sin of the angel and the sin of the human are sins of pride. But pride comes in various forms, which are not evident, and a certain care is required to distinguish them adequately. The nature of angelic sin and human sin is the subject of controversy, both inside and outside the Christian tradition. My proposals are based on a specific use of theological and literary sources in a firm commitment to analysis and the theses of Thomas Aquinas. In his thought I have found the firmest and most profound guide for both the understanding of hubris and for the comprehension of angelic sin and human sin. His conceptual proposal is to characterize pride as ‘disordered appetite for one’s own excellence’, which agrees with the linguistic definitions of pride we have previously examined, with the new added element of disorder, on which we will have to concentrate later.