The Origin of Satan
by Elaine Pagels
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Author: Elaine PagelsEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1995-05-30
ISBN: 0679401407
Number of pages: 214
Publisher: Random House
Summary of The Origin of Satan
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.From the Trade Paperback edition.
. . . ground-breaking . . . Many times in the course of reading her explications I found myself saying, "Of course, why hasn't someone said this before?" By showing how the sectarian demonization of the "intimate enemies"--Jews and heretics--shaped early Christianity, the book helps us to understand the power of irrational forces that still need to be confronted in contemporary society. -- S. David Sperling, professor of Bible, Hebrew Union College
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