"Although the Devil still 'lives' in modern popular culture, for the past 250 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…
"In The Devil, Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era. Along the way, he describes the rise of demonology as an intellectual and theological pursuit, the persecution as witches of women believed to consort with the De…
"In The Devil, Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era. Along the way, he describes the rise of demonology as an intellectual and theological pursuit, the persecution as witches of women believed to consort with the De…
"In The Devil, Philip C. Almond explores the figure of evil incarnate from the first centuries of the Christian era. Along the way, he describes the rise of demonology as an intellectual and theological pursuit, the persecution as witches of women believed to consort with the De…
Devils, demons, death and damnation
by Lehner, Ernst, Lehner, Johanna
fromDover pictorial archive series
Une quarantaine de critiques élogieuses, publiées lors de la parution originale de cet ouvrage (1997), sont reproduites au début de l'ouvrage. Fruit de douze années de recherches interdisciplinaires, une vision assez révolutionnaire du comportement social humain décrypté à trave…