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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1988Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (303 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501703331
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Prince of DarknessDDC classification:
  • 111.8409
LOC classification:
  • BT981
Online resources:
Contents:
The Prince of Darkness -- Contents -- Preface -- 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.
Summary: While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.
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The Prince of Darkness -- Contents -- Preface -- 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.

While recounting how past generations have personified evil, Jeffrey Burton Russell deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil.

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