The Origin of Satan

How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics

von Elaine Pagels

240 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. "Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems." —The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan’s story into an audacious exploration of Christianity’s shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9780679731184
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 30.04.1996
• Größe: 205 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group