Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil by Simmons, Amy

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780231119771)

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Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil by Simmons, Amy

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil

$34.00
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil by Simmons, Amy

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil

$34.00
Format: Paperback
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In this timely and sweeping exploration, one of the greatest living historians of Christian thought traces the concept of Antichrist from its Judeo-Christian origins to the present day. Rooted in Second Temple Judaism--a period of intense religious and political disruption--Antichrist developed out of belief in malevolent angelic and human forces. McGinn demonstrates how Antichrist has often reflected the human need to comprehend the persistence of evil in the world, and examines how it has haunted popular imagination in both the form of indivuduals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims.

Author: Amy Simmons
ISBN-10: 0231119771
ISBN-13: 9780231119771
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/07/1999
Pages: 369
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.20w x 1.00d
By Amy Simmons
By Amy Simmons
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Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the author of many books, including Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages (Columbia).

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