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The Origin Of Satan
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1996-04-30
The Origin Of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-30 with Religion categories.
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.
The Origin Of Satan
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Author : Elaine H. Pagels
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Origin Of Satan written by Elaine H. Pagels and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Bible categories.
This work is a social history of the devil. The figure of Satan has been a standing puzzle in the history of religion. This study examines his origins and his shifting functions. Satan is not present in classical Jewish sources (and scarcely present in traditional Judaism to this day). Images of Satan began to develop and proliferate in later Jewish sources not included in the Hebrew Bible. The book explores this early history or invention of the devil, and traces Satan's subsequent transformations as one of society's most necessary fictions.
The Origin Of Satan
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 1996-04-30
The Origin Of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-04-30 with Religion categories.
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.
The Origin Of Satan
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-10-12
The Origin Of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-10-12 with Religion categories.
From the religious historian whose The Gnostic Gospels won both the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition. 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.
Origin Of Satan
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Author : Frederick K. C. Price
language : en
Publisher: Harrison House
Release Date : 1988-09-01
Origin Of Satan written by Frederick K. C. Price and has been published by Harrison House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988-09-01 with Demoniac possession categories.
Revelations
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2012-03-06
Revelations written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-06 with Religion categories.
A startling exploration of the history of the most controversial book of the Bible, by the bestselling author of Beyond Belief. Through the bestselling books of Elaine Pagels, thousands of readers have come to know and treasure the suppressed biblical texts known as the Gnostic Gospels. As one of the world's foremost religion scholars, she has been a pioneer in interpreting these books and illuminating their place in the early history of Christianity. Her new book, however, tackles a text that is firmly, dramatically within the New Testament canon: The Book of Revelation, the surreal apocalyptic vision of the end of the world . . . or is it? In this startling and timely book, Pagels returns The Book of Revelation to its historical origin, written as its author John of Patmos took aim at the Roman Empire after what is now known as "the Jewish War," in 66 CE. Militant Jews in Jerusalem, fired with religious fervor, waged an all-out war against Rome's occupation of Judea and their defeat resulted in the desecration of Jerusalem and its Great Temple. Pagels persuasively interprets Revelation as a scathing attack on the decadence of Rome. Soon after, however, a new sect known as "Christians" seized on John's text as a weapon against heresy and infidels of all kinds-Jews, even Christians who dissented from their increasingly rigid doctrines and hierarchies. In a time when global religious violence surges, Revelations explores how often those in power throughout history have sought to force "God's enemies" to submit or be killed. It is sure to appeal to Pagels's committed readers and bring her a whole new audience who want to understand the roots of dissent, violence, and division in the world's religions, and to appreciate the lasting appeal of this extraordinary text.
The Origin Of Satan
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Lane, Allen
Release Date : 1996
The Origin Of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Lane, Allen this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Bible categories.
Reading Judas
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Author : Elaine Pagels
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2007-03-06
Reading Judas written by Elaine Pagels and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-06 with Religion categories.
The instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas is a source of fascination for biblical scholars and lay Christians alike. Now two leading experts on the Gnostic gospels tackle the important questions posed by its discovery, including: How could any Christian imagine Judas to be Jesus' favorite? And what kind of vision of God does the author offer? Working from Karen L. King's brilliant new translation, Elaine Pagels and King provide the context necessary for considering its meaning. Reading Judas plunges into the heart of Christianity itself and will stand as the definitive look at the gospel for years to come.
The History Of The Devil
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Author : Vilém Flusser
language : en
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Release Date : 2015-07-31
The History Of The Devil written by Vilém Flusser and has been published by U of Minnesota Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-31 with Philosophy categories.
In 1939, a young Vilém Flusser faced the Nazi invasion of his hometown of Prague. He escaped with his wife to Brazil, taking with him only two books: a small Jewish prayer book and Goethe’s Faust. Twenty-six years later, in 1965, Flusser would publish The History of the Devil, and it is the essence of those two books that haunts his own. From that time his life as a philosopher was born. While Flusser would later garner attention in Europe and elsewhere as a thinker of media culture, The History of the Devil is considered by many to be his first significant work, containing nascent forms of the main themes that would come to preoccupy him over the following decades. In The History of the Devil, Flusser frames the human situation from a pseudo-religious point of view. The phenomenal world, or “reality” in a general sense, is identified as the “Devil,” and that which transcends phenomena, or the philosophers’ and theologians’ “reality,” is identified as “God.” Referencing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus in its structure, Flusser provocatively leads the reader through an existential exploration of nothingness as the bedrock of reality, where “phenomenon” and “transcendence,” “Devil” and “God” become fused and confused. So radically confused, in fact, that Flusser suggests we abandon the quotation marks from the terms “Devil” and “God.” At this moment of abysmal confusion, we must make the existential decisions that give direction to our lives.
The Birth Of Satan
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Author : T. J. Wray
language : en
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Release Date : 2014-12-09
The Birth Of Satan written by T. J. Wray and has been published by St. Martin's Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-12-09 with Religion categories.
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--and why--did this rather minor biblical character morph into the very embodiment of evil? T.J. Wray and Gregory Mobley guide readers on a journey to retrace Satan's biblical roots. Engaging and informative, The Birth of Satan is a must read for anyone who has ever wondered about the origins of the Devil.