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"Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past years he has become marginal to the dominant concerns of Western intellectual thought. That life could not be thought or imagined without him, that he was a part of the everyday, continually present in nature and history, and active at the depths of our selves, has been all but forgotten. It is the aim of this work to bring modern readers to a deeper appreciation of how, from the early centuries of the Christian period through to the recent beginnings of the modern world, the human story could not be told and human life could not be lived apart from the ‘life’ of the Devil. With that comes the deeper recognition that, for the better part of the last two thousand years, the battle between good and evil in the hearts and minds of men and women was but the reflection of a cosmic battle between God and Satan, the divine and the diabolic, that was at the heart of history itself."―from <em>The Devil
Lucifer, Mephistopheles, Beelzebub; Ha-Satan or the Adversary; Iblis or Shaitan: no matter what name he travels under, the Devil has throughout the ages and across civilizations been a compelling
The Devil: A New Biography. By Philip C. Almond. Pp. xviii, , London/NY, I.B. Tauris, , £Facing the Fiend: Satan as a Literary Character. By Eva Marta Baillie. Pp. x, , Eugene, Oregon, Cascade Books, , £
bs_bs_banner BOOK REVIEWS primal scream of a liberal society committed, faute de mieux, to a person’s absolute right to unlimited selffulfilment, together with its standard, scandalized objection to theism by its self-assured drama kings and queens: ‘Even if there is a god, how could you possibly worship someone who allows such horrendous, intolerable evils to occur?’ Exhibit number one, of course, is the cruel suffering of innocent children – the human analogue to the baby seals who stare at us plaintively from photographs before they are clobbered over the head in the annual harvest supplied by animal-rights protestors, now incriminating the public in the god-role – although we commonly eat veal, lamb, squab and the young of other species and nobody seems to get too excited – perhaps they don’t look enough like us, or their eyes aren’t wide-enough apart. The Biblical outcry comes from the ‘inconsolable’ Rachel, but Knasas doesn’t skirt the confrontational and more-sensitive-t
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T h e D e v i l ‘The Devil has hardly lacked for biographers in the past forty years, but Philip Almond’s new book represents a valuable addition to the list of such studies. It is comprehensive, spanning the whole range of time, amounting to two and a half millennia, in which Satan has been a figure in the Western imagination. It is lucid, explaining often quite complex theology in a manner which can be understood by, and makes the material genuinely interesting and exciting to, any readers. It will have an especial appeal to those in the English-speaking world, as, following a first half which concentrates on the development of the standard concept of the Devil in Christian theology, it examines how the implications of it worked out in England in particular; but it still keeps a hold on Continental European texts and events. All told, this is probably the best scholarly book on the subject currently available to a general audience.’ Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol ‘Philip Almond’s new book is a triumph of the simple exposition of complex concepts. With humour and charm, it proceeds accessibly from the earliest Jewish w
The Devil: A New Biography PDF
T h e D e v i l ‘The Devil has hardly lacked for biographers in the past forty years, but Philip Almond’s new book represents a valuable addition to the list of such studies. It is comprehensive, spanning the whole range of time, amounting to two and a half millennia, in which Satan has been a figure in the Western imagination. It is lucid, explaining often quite complex theology in a manner which can be understood by, and makes the material genuinely interesting and exciting to, any readers. It will have an especial appeal to those in the English-speaking world, as, following a first half which concentrates on the development of the standard concept of the Devil in Christian theology, it examines how the implications of it worked out in England in particular; but it still keeps a hold on Continental European texts and events. All told, this is probably the best scholarly book on the subject currently available to a general audience.’ Ronald Hutton, Professor of History, University of Bristol ‘Philip Almond’s new book is a triumph of the simple exposition of complex concepts. With humour and charm, it proceeds accessibly from the
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