By Miguel De La Torre,Albert Hernandez
ISBN-10: 0800663241
ISBN-13: 9780800663247
De l. a. Torre and Hernandez's quantity probes the murky origins of the satanic legends and ideology again to their pre-Christian roots within the center East. They unearth the Satan's roots in Egyptian and Babylonian understandings of evil. additionally they exhibit, in spite of the fact that, that the traditional devil has a few features we might not often realize, specially his visual appeal in so much historic cultures and survival in lots of conventional religions because the "trickster" determine. whereas a minor culture in ancient Christianity, the authors argue, seeing devil as trickster is traditionally exact and holds genuine promise for Christian rethinking in "theology, philosophy, and perform of evil" and the way it may be handled. it is a interesting tale that is helping the reader reframe simple components of our worldview of excellent and evil.
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