[PDF] The History Of The Devil eBook

Author : Paul Carus
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2012-08-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 0486122891

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This treasury of facts and lore on the philosophy and practice of evil traces the concept of Satan from ancient to modern times. A collection of 350 rare and compelling images illuminate the text.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Courier Dover Publications
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 MB
Release : 2016-02-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 048680237X

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Satire by the author of Robinson Crusoe examines the rise of the historical force known as "the devil," from Satan's origins to devilish influences on 18th-century monarchs and ordinary folk.

Author : Vilém Flusser
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,30 MB
Release : 2015-07-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1937561429

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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.

Author : Darren Oldridge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0199580995

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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 : R. Lowe Thompson
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 34,31 MB
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1473390001

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Originally published London 1929. A detailed history of the Devil in all his forms. Includes much content on magic, paganism and early Wicca practices. Contents Include: Early Belief. The Power of Magic. Magicians and Priests. Horned God of the West. Witch God and Devil. The Evolved Magician. Herne and his Kin. Decline of the Devil. Magic Today. etc. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Home Farm Books are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author : Jeffrey Burton Russell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,1 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801494093

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This lively and learned book traces the history of the concept of evil and its personification as the Devil from ancient times to the period of the New Testament and across cultures and civilizations.