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.
Elaine Pagels traces the evolution of Satan from its origins in the Hebrew Bible, where Satan is at first merely obstructive, to the New Testament where Satan became the Prince of Darkness, the bitter enemy of God and man, evil incarnate.
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ORIGIN OF SATAN
Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Product Weight: 0.56 lbs
Author: Pagels, Elaine
Publication Date: 1996-04-30
Language: English
Publisher: VINTAGE
Dewey Decimal Classification: 235.47
Number of Units in Package: 1
ISBN: 9780679731184
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