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The Prince of Darkness : Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History.

The Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity to the present. While recounting how...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Russell, Jeffrey Burton
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2016.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 1. Evil
  • 2. The Devil around the World
  • 3. The Good Lord and the Devil
  • 4. Christ and the Power of Evil
  • 5. Satan and Heresy
  • 6. Dualism and the Desert
  • 7. The Classical Christian View
  • 8. Lucifer Popular and Elite
  • 9. Scholastics, Poets, and Dramatists
  • 10. Nominalists, Mystics, and Witches
  • 11. The Devil and the Reformers
  • 12. High on a Throne of Royal State
  • 13. The Disintegration of Hell
  • 14. From Romance to Nihilism
  • 15. The Integration of Evil
  • 16. Auschwitz and Hiroshima
  • 17. The Meaning of Evil
  • Appendixes
  • Index.