Covering a period of two thousand years, this book offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the devils role in the Western tradition and draws from history, religion, art, literature, media studies and anthropology to provide a multifaceted view...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 08-Apr-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: Bethany House Publishers, a division of Baker Publishing Group, ISBN-13: 9780764240485)
Engaging, discerning, and humorous, award-winning biographer Jared Brock sorts through the myths and misinformation about the devil we know, revealing a biblical adversary we need to know-including his real name, home, and life story, his actual pow...Daugiau...
Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, t...Daugiau...
This study argues that the establishment of the millennium binding of Satan and the vindication of the saints in Revelation 20:1-6 are cohesively linked with Jesuss victorious battle in Revelation 19:11-21. The major implication of this analysis vi...Daugiau...
Serija: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jul-2022, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442634169)
The Medieval Devil is a unique collection of primary sources that examines the development of medieval society through the lens of how people perceived the devil. In exploring where and how Europeans discerned his presence, detected his m...Daugiau...
This book argues that the sin of the devil compels a view of moral responsibility that undermines concerns about luck. It surveys the biblical account of the primal sin, its major interpretation in the tradition, and navigates that interpretation th...Daugiau...
Serija: Readings in Medieval Civilizations and Cultures
(Išleidimo metai: 10-Jun-2022, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Toronto Press, ISBN-13: 9781442634176)
The Medieval Devil is a unique collection of primary sources that examines the development of medieval society through the lens of how people perceived the devil. In exploring where and how Europeans discerned his presence, detected his m...Daugiau...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, a...Daugiau...
Witches, ghosts, fairies. Premodern Europe was filled with strange creatures, with the devil lurking behind them all. But were his powers real? Did his powers have limits? Or were tales of the demonic all one grand illusion? Physicians, lawyers, and...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Jul-2019, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, ISBN-13: 9780802872500)
Many people today think of Satan as a little red demon with a pointy tail and a pitchfork—but this vision of the devil developed over many centuries and would be foreign to the writers of the Old Testament, where this figure makes his f...Daugiau...
Philosophers of religion have focused almost exclusively on the existence and nature of God and the nature and destiny of human beings. But these philosophers have been remiss in engaging discussions about the possibility of there being adverse go...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 26-Oct-2016, Hardback, Leidėjas: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780804799683)
Calling upon us to rethink some of our most treasured contemporary values, this book shows where the Christian idea of the devil came from and how it eventually took over Christian theology, turning God himself into the devil....Daugiau...
Calling upon us to rethink some of our most treasured contemporary values, this book shows where the Christian idea of the devil came from and how it eventually took over Christian theology, turning God himself into the devil....Daugiau...
Frequent discussions of Satan from the pulpit, in the courtroom, in print, in self-writings, and on the streets rendered the Devil an immediate and assumed presence in early modern Scotland. For some, especially those engaged in political struggle, t...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 15-Oct-2013, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226100265)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable Treatise on Evil in 1272, everything changed. In Satan the Heretic, Alain Boureau trains his skeptical eye n...Daugiau...
The figure of Satan has for centuries embodied or incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured largely in Christian practices, devotions, popular notions of the afterlife, and fears o...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Apr-2008, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226501314)
In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, demi-gods, and spiritual creatures, including the gods of the household, the lares and penates. But Armando Magg...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Aug-2006, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226067483)
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Before the end of the thirteenth century, theologians had little interest in demons, but with Thomas Aquinas and his formidable “Treatise on Evil” in 1272, everything changed. In Satan the Heretic, Alain Boureau trains his ske...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 01-Jun-2006, Hardback, Leidėjas: University of Chicago Press, ISBN-13: 9780226501307)
Who are the familiar spirits of classical culture and what is their relationship to Christian demons? In its interpretation of Latin and Greek culture, Christianity contends that Satan is behind all classical deities, semi-gods, and spiritual cr...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
The FaithQuestions study series is designed to meet the needs of people who have questions about the Christian faith and who desire a deeper engagement with scripture and with discipleship as they explore studies of issues in theology, ethics, missio...Daugiau...
Serija: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
(Išleidimo metai: 12-Jan-2006, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9780521802369)
English Protestants of the 16th and 17th centuries did not try to overturn the traditional belief in the Devil, as they did with more high-profile aspects of Catholic religion, says Johnstone (history, Canterbury Christ Church U.), rather they emphas...Daugiau...
Ši knyga nebeleidžiama, tačiau mes Jums pranešime naudoto egzemplioriaus kainą
Of all the demons, monsters, fiends, and ogres to preoccupy the western imagination in literature, art, and film, no figure has been more feared—or misunderstood--than Satan. But how accurate are the popular images of Satan? How-...Daugiau...
This highly original and engaging book by French historian Robert Muchembled, is a journey through time and space in search of the changing perception and significance of the devil in Western culture. An outstanding book about the cha...Daugiau...
This highly original and engaging book by French historian Robert Muchembled, is a journey through time and space in search of the changing perception and significance of the devil in Western culture. An outstanding book about the cha...Daugiau...
Mephistopheles is the fourth and final volume of Jeffrey Burton Russells critically acclaimed history of the concept of the Devil, continuing in this volume the story from the Reformation to the present....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 06-Sep-1988, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801420146)
Chronicles the story of the Devil from ancient times to the present, detailing diverse cultures perceptions of evil and an evil being and examining beliefs toward the Devil today...Daugiau...
Traces the evolution of the concept of evil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament, calling attention to ideas about the Devil in Eastern and Western cultures...Daugiau...
Satan is both a revealing study of the compelling figure of the Devil and an imaginative and persuasive inquiry into the forces that shape a concept and ensure its survival....Daugiau...
Describes the medieval concept of the devil, discusses witchcraft and devil folklore, and examines the depiction of evil in art and literature of the period...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Nov-1977, Hardback, Leidėjas: Cornell University Press, ISBN-13: 9780801409387)
This lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil and its personification as the Devil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament and across cultures and civilizations....Daugiau...
