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Author: Carmen Kern Publisher: Carmen Kern via PublishDrive ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 95
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What if you call for Death, but the Devil shows up instead? Life sucks, and then you die, at least you try to. Or, if you’re James Rucker, Lucifer, aka The Devil, shows up at your door instead of Death, job offer in hand. An offer Rucker can’t refuse. Not if he wants his family safe and fully souled. Rucker is sentenced to hell, writing Lucifer’s memoir. The hours are brutal. His demonic colleagues are lousy conversationalists, and the health benefits are still up in the air. But after his first live showing of the fall of Lucifer Morningstar and the sins of the Garden, he discovers there is more to history than what he’d learned in university, and his own past isn’t what he thought it was. The bets are on the table as heaven and hell roll the dice for Rucker’s future. SATAN’S HISTORIAN is the first novella in the new series, THE LUCIFER CHRONICLES.
Author: Carmen Kern Publisher: Carmen Kern via PublishDrive ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 95
Book Description
What if you call for Death, but the Devil shows up instead? Life sucks, and then you die, at least you try to. Or, if you’re James Rucker, Lucifer, aka The Devil, shows up at your door instead of Death, job offer in hand. An offer Rucker can’t refuse. Not if he wants his family safe and fully souled. Rucker is sentenced to hell, writing Lucifer’s memoir. The hours are brutal. His demonic colleagues are lousy conversationalists, and the health benefits are still up in the air. But after his first live showing of the fall of Lucifer Morningstar and the sins of the Garden, he discovers there is more to history than what he’d learned in university, and his own past isn’t what he thought it was. The bets are on the table as heaven and hell roll the dice for Rucker’s future. SATAN’S HISTORIAN is the first novella in the new series, THE LUCIFER CHRONICLES.
Author: Elaine Pagels Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679731180 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 242
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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.
Author: Massimo Introvigne Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004244964 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 665
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A 17th-century French haberdasher invented the Black Mass. An 18th-century English Cabinet Minister administered the Eucharist to a baboon. High-ranking Catholic authorities in the 19th century believed that Satan appeared in Masonic lodges in the shape of a crocodile and played the piano there. A well-known scientist from the 20th century established a cult of the Antichrist and exploded in a laboratory experiment. Three Italian girls in 2000 sacrificed a nun to the Devil. A Black Metal band honored Satan in Krakow, Poland, in 2004 by exhibiting on stage 120 decapitated sheep heads. Some of these stories, as absurd as they might sound, were real. Others, which might appear to be equally well reported, are false. But even false stories have generated real societal reactions. For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.
Author: Elaine Pagels Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0679722327 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 226
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A National Book Award winner and New York Times bestselling author deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. "Confirms her reputation as both a scholar and a popular interpreter.... Continuously rewarding and illuminating." —The New York Times How did the early Christians come to believe that sex was inherently sinful? When did the Fall of Adam become synonymous with the fall of humanity? What turned Christianity from a dissident sect that championed the integrity of the individual and the idea of free will into the bulwark of a new imperial order—with the central belief that human beings cannot not choose to sin? In this provocative masterpiece of historical scholarship Elaine Pagels re-creates the controversies that racked the early church as it confronted the riddles of sexuality, freedom, and sin as embodied in the story of Genesis. And she shows how what was once heresy came to shape our own attitudes toward the body and the soul.
Author: Sean Summers Publisher: Wheatmark, Inc. ISBN: 1587368064 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 118
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This book solves history's mysteries, and why the world's leaders since the beginning of time made the decisions they did. What caused the deaths of famous people of the past like Charlemagne, Alexander Pope, Beethoven, Napoleon, George Washington, and others? What caused King George III to go "mad"? What caused the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, the Revolution of 1848 in Europe, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War? You will learn the real truth!
Author: David Frankfurter Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691186979 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 305
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In the 1980s, America was gripped by widespread panics about Satanic cults. Conspiracy theories abounded about groups who were allegedly abusing children in day-care centers, impregnating girls for infant sacrifice, brainwashing adults, and even controlling the highest levels of government. As historian of religions David Frankfurter listened to these sinister theories, it occurred to him how strikingly similar they were to those that swept parts of the early Christian world, early modern Europe, and postcolonial Africa. He began to investigate the social and psychological patterns that give rise to these myths. Thus was born Evil Incarnate, a riveting analysis of the mythology of evilconspiracy. The first work to provide an in-depth analysis of the topic, the book uses anthropology, the history of religion, sociology, and psychoanalytic theory, to answer the questions "What causes people collectively to envision evil and seek to exterminate it?" and "Why does the representation of evil recur in such typical patterns?" Frankfurter guides the reader through such diverse subjects as witch-hunting, the origins of demonology, cannibalism, and the rumors of Jewish ritual murder, demonstrating how societies have long expanded upon their fears of such atrocities to address a collective anxiety. Thus, he maintains, panics over modern-day infant sacrifice are really not so different from rumors about early Christians engaging in infant feasts during the second and third centuries in Rome. In Evil Incarnate, Frankfurter deepens historical awareness that stories of Satanic atrocities are both inventions of the mind and perennial phenomena, not authentic criminal events. True evil, as he so artfully demonstrates, is not something organized and corrupting, but rather a social construction that inspires people to brutal acts in the name of moral order.
Author: Darren Oldridge Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199580995 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 145
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The Devil has fascinated writers and theologians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many dramatic and haunting works of art. Today he remains a potent image in popular culture. The Devil: A Very Short Introduction presents an introduction to the Christian Devil through the history of ideas and the lives of real people.
Author: Miguel A. De La Torre Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 1451414811 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 274
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For centuries the figure of Satan has incarnated absolute evil. Existing alongside more intellectualist interpretations of evil, Satan has figured largely in Christian practices, devotions, popular notions of the afterlife, and fears of retribution in the beyond. Satan remains an influential reality today in many Christian traditions and in popular culture. But how should Satan be understood today? "The Quest for the Historical Satan excavates cultural, historical, religious, and morally constructed productions of evil within Christianity, from myth and legend to the complex ways people conjure the embodiment of evil and harm. De La Torre and Hernßndez are engaging sleuths as they carefully examine Satan's conception and his presence in modernity and through the ages. The wrestle with the spiritual notions of Good and Evil and justice and injustice.-Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan Professor of Theology and Women's Studies Shaw University Divinity School
Author: Carmen Kern
Author: Carmen Kern
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Author: Elaine Pagels
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