Author : Léon Cristiani
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,27 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Devil
ISBN : 9780895550323
Convincing proof the devil does exist and still manifests his presence. Covers diabolical infestation, obsession, and possession. Many famous cases of possession and exorcism, plus a general discussion of the devil. This is one of the best books on the subject of possession ever written. Discusses also Satan at Lourdes--to distract from the apparitions of 1858--and the devices of Satan to deceive us. 210 pgs. PB
Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199580995
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 : Elaine Pagels
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 1996-04-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0679731180
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 : Cotton Mather
Publisher :
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 1862
Category : Crime
ISBN :
Author : Ted R. Spivey
Publisher : Mercer University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 25,27 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780865545571
This volume draws on the author's six-year correspondence with Flannery O'Connor in this evaluation of the Southern writer as an intellectual and as a student of the Western tradition in literature and religion. He emphasizes her deep connection with writers such as Joyce and Bernanos in the context of the Modernist tradition, and discusses how her study of these religious writers influenced her visions of world apocalypse and religious community. The author studies the revealed tensions and interrelationships of O'Connor's "secular intellect" versus her "religious intellect."
Author : Bart D. Ehrman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,62 MB
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1501136747
Over half of Americans believe in a literal heaven, in a literal hell. Most people who hold these beliefs are Christian and assume they are the age-old teachings of the Bible. Ehrman shows that eternal rewards and punishments are found nowhere in the Old Testament, and are not what Jesus or his disciples taught. He recounts the long history of the afterlife, ranging from The Epic of Gilgamesh up to the writings of Augustine, focusing especially on the teachings of Jesus and his early followers. Ehrman shows that competing views were intimately connected with the social, cultural, and historical worlds out of which they emerged. -- adapted from jacket
Author : Miguel A. De La Torre
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release :
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1451414811
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 : W. Scott Poole
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 39,96 MB
Release : 2009-11-16
Category : History
ISBN : 1442200626
Satan in America tells the story of America's complicated relationship with the devil. "New light" evangelists of the eighteenth century, enslaved African Americans, demagogic politicians, and modern American film-makers have used the devil to damn their enemies, explain the nature of evil and injustice, mount social crusades, construct a national identity, and express anxiety about matters as diverse as the threat of war to the dangers of deviant sexuality. The idea of the monstrous and the bizarre providing cultural metaphors that interact with historical change is not new. Poole takes a new tack by examining this idea in conjunction with the concerns of American religious history. The book shows that both the range and the scope of American religiousness made theological evil an especially potent symbol. Satan appears repeatedly on the political, religious, and cultural landscape of the United States, a shadow self to the sunny image of American progress and idealism.
Author : Patrick Ryan Bell
Publisher : TrineDay
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 22,14 MB
Release : 2024-05-02
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1634244869
Slaves of Satan is an extraordinary book that looks at the darkest corners of the human and diabolical mind and answers the question of why. Why do human beings commit some of the most horrific, appalling, and unspeakable acts known to man. What is it that drives these evil people; serial killers, cult leaders, occultists, and dictators to leave a trail of murder, violence, sexual depravity, and total unmitigated destruction in their wake. Author Patrick Bell through years of extensive research has done a deep dive into one of religions most controversial and terrifying subjects, diabolical possession, and the most serious and horrifying form of it known as Perfect Possession. When a human being has given themselves, their intellect, mind, will and body, their very souls over completely to the source of all evil, Lucifer. The author examines the theology and church teaching behind perfect possession, the three types of it, who it occurs to and why and then examines people from history (Slaves of Satan) who were perfectly possessed including serial killers, dictators, the international occult elite and the diabolical deeds and destruction they have perpetrated, led on by their master the devil, upon the human race.
Author : Leon Cristiani
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 32,36 MB
Release : 2023-01-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781644138465
"This classic book, heralded as one of the best ever written on demonic possession, offers chilling accounts of possessions, both dated and recent, and exorcisms that are strikingly similar-- whether conducted in France, Italy, Vietnam, or elsewhere. You will discover the signs of possession and how they differ from those of obsession and psychological illnesses." [taken from back cover]
