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Book The Devil s Historians

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  • Author : Amy S. Kaufman
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2020
  • ISBN : 1487587848
  • Pages : 207 pages

Download or read book The Devil s Historians written by Amy S. Kaufman and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Devil's Historians offers a passionate corrective to common - and very dangerous - myths about the medieval world.

Book Satan s Historian

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  • Author : Carmen Kern
  • Publisher : Carmen Kern via PublishDrive
  • Release : 2019-01-24
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 95 pages

Download or read book Satan s Historian written by Carmen Kern and published by Carmen Kern via PublishDrive. This book was released on 2019-01-24 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if you call for Death, but the Devil shows up instead? Life sucks, and then you die, at least you try to. Or, if you’re James Rucker, Lucifer, aka The Devil, shows up at your door instead of Death, job offer in hand. An offer Rucker can’t refuse. Not if he wants his family safe and fully souled. Rucker is sentenced to hell, writing Lucifer’s memoir. The hours are brutal. His demonic colleagues are lousy conversationalists, and the health benefits are still up in the air. But after his first live showing of the fall of Lucifer Morningstar and the sins of the Garden, he discovers there is more to history than what he’d learned in university, and his own past isn’t what he thought it was. The bets are on the table as heaven and hell roll the dice for Rucker’s future. SATAN’S HISTORIAN is the first novella in the new series, THE LUCIFER CHRONICLES.

Book The Origin of Satan

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  • Author : Elaine Pagels
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 1996-04-30
  • ISBN : 0679731180
  • Pages : 242 pages

Download or read book The Origin of Satan written by Elaine Pagels and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1996-04-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book The Political History of the Devil  Satan s Devices  or  the Political history of the devil  ancient and modern     A new edition  with engravings

Download or read book The Political History of the Devil Satan s Devices or the Political history of the devil ancient and modern A new edition with engravings written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Satan s Playground

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  • Author : Paul J Vanderwood
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2010-04-09
  • ISBN : 082239166X
  • Pages : 410 pages

Download or read book Satan s Playground written by Paul J Vanderwood and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-04-09 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan’s Playground chronicles the rise and fall of the tumultuous and lucrative gambling industry that developed just south of the U.S.-Mexico border in the early twentieth century. As prohibitions against liquor, horse racing, gambling, and prostitution swept the United States, the vice industry flourished in and around Tijuana, to the extent that reformers came to call the town “Satan’s Playground,” unintentionally increasing its licentious allure. The area was dominated by Agua Caliente, a large, elegant gaming resort opened by four entrepreneurial Border Barons (three Americans and one Mexican) in 1928. Diplomats, royalty, film stars, sports celebrities, politicians, patricians, and nouveau-riche capitalists flocked to Agua Caliente’s luxurious complex of casinos, hotels, cabarets, and sports extravaganzas, and to its world-renowned thoroughbred racetrack. Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, Louis B. Mayer, the Marx Brothers, Bing Crosby, Charlie Chaplin, Gloria Swanson, and the boxer Jack Dempsey were among the regular visitors. So were mobsters such as Bugsy Siegel, who later cited Agua Caliente as his inspiration for building the first such resort on what became the Las Vegas Strip. Less than a year after Agua Caliente opened, gangsters held up its money-car in transit to a bank in San Diego, killing the courier and a guard and stealing the company money pouch. Paul J. Vanderwood weaves the story of this heist gone wrong, the search for the killers, and their sensational trial into the overall history of the often-chaotic development of Agua Caliente, Tijuana, and Southern California. Drawing on newspaper accounts, police files, court records, personal memoirs, oral histories, and “true detective” magazines, he presents a fascinating portrait of vice and society in the Jazz Age, and he makes a significant contribution to the history of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Book The Devil  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book The Devil A Very Short Introduction written by Darren Oldridge and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Book Our Ancient Foe

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  • Author : Ronald L. Kohl
  • Publisher : Best of Philadelphia Conferenc
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781629956459
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book Our Ancient Foe written by Ronald L. Kohl and published by Best of Philadelphia Conferenc. This book was released on 2019 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satan. The Devil. Beelzebub. Each name makes us shudder. Christians are at war with an enemy who "doth seek to work us woe," and our souls hang in the balance. Known in Scripture as our "adversary," he prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He delights in rendering believers powerless, ruining their testimonies, and destroying their lives. These are serious threats, but are we taking Satan seriously? Are we on guard against his agenda? Do we know how to stand firm against the Prince of Darkness? Here respected pastor-scholars including Kent Hughes, Joel Beeke, and Sinclair Ferguson shine the light of Scripture on our ancient foe, identifying who he is, explaining how he operates, exposing his web of lies, and celebrating his final demise. You will be equipped to more fully understand the war we are engaged in and how you can "resist the devil" in the power of Christ.

Book Satan

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  • Author : Henry Ansgar Kelly
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2006-08-17
  • ISBN : 0521843391
  • Pages : 309 pages

Download or read book Satan written by Henry Ansgar Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-08-17 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Book Satanism  A Social History

Download or read book Satanism A Social History written by Massimo Introvigne and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, Massimo Introvigne proposes a general social history of Satanism and anti-Satanism, from the French Court of Louis XIV to the Satanic scares of the late 20th century, satanic themes in Black Metal music, the Church of Satan, and beyond.

Book World History on Satan s Diet

Download or read book World History on Satan s Diet written by Sean Summers and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book solves history's mysteries, and why the world's leaders since the beginning of time made the decisions they did. What caused the deaths of famous people of the past like Charlemagne, Alexander Pope, Beethoven, Napoleon, George Washington, and others? What caused King George III to go "mad"? What caused the Revolutionary War, the French Revolution, the Revolution of 1848 in Europe, the American Civil War, World War I, World War II, and the Vietnam War? You will learn the real truth!

Book The Quest for the Historical Satan

Download or read book The Quest for the Historical Satan written by Miguel A. De La Torre and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

Book Subduing Satan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ted Ownby
  • Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
  • Release : 1990
  • ISBN : 9780807819135
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Subduing Satan written by Ted Ownby and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Subduing Satan: Religion, Recreation, and Manhood in the Rural South, 1865-1920

Book Masks of Satan

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  • Author : Christopher Nugent
  • Publisher : Burns & Oates
  • Release : 1983
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 232 pages

Download or read book Masks of Satan written by Christopher Nugent and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1983 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The History of Satan

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  • Author : Roy Gingrich
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2001-02
  • ISBN : 9781583930687
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The History of Satan written by Roy Gingrich and published by . This book was released on 2001-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Satan s Circus

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  • Author : Mike Dash
  • Publisher : Granta Books
  • Release : 2011-02-03
  • ISBN : 1847084753
  • Pages : 464 pages

Download or read book Satan s Circus written by Mike Dash and published by Granta Books. This book was released on 2011-02-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mike Dash is a master of atmospheric and entertaining historical narrative. In Satan's Circus he vividly opens up the world of twentieth-century New York, telling the gripping story of police officer Charley Becker's rise and fall and of the sensational murder trials that led to his gruesome death in the electric chair. With a cast of colourful characters, from Big Tim Sullivan, the election-rigging vice lord, to future President Theodore Roosevelt and beloved gangster Jack Zelig, Satan's Circus brings to life an almost forgotten Gotham - a raucous, gaudy and utterly corrupt city.

Book Servants of Satan

Download or read book Servants of Satan written by Joseph Klaits and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the persecution of witches reflected the darker side of the central social, political, and cultural developments of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This is the first book to consider the general course and significance of the European witch craze of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries since H.R. Trevor-Roper’s classic and pioneering study appeared some fifteen years ago. Drawing upon the advances in historical and social-science scholarship of the past decade and a half, Joseph Klaits integrates the recent appreciations of witchcraft in regional studies, the history of popular culture, anthropology, sociology, and psychology to better illuminate the place of witch hunting in the context of social, political, economic and religious change. “In all, Klaits has done a good job. Avoiding the scandalous and sensational, he has maintained throughout, with sensitivity and economy, an awareness of the uniqueness of the theories and persecutions that have fascinated scholars now for two decades and are unlikely to lose their appeal in the foreseeable future.” —American Historical Review “This is a commendable synthesis whose time has come . . . fascinating.” —The Sixteenth Century Journal “Comprehensive and clearly written . . . An excellent book.” —Choice “Impeccable research and interpretation stand behind this scholarly but not stultifying account.” —Booklist “A good, solid, general treatment.” —Erik Midelfort, C. Julian Bishko Professor Emeritus of History and Religious Studies, University of Virginia “A well written, easy to read book, and the bibliography is a good source of secondary materials for further reading.” —Journal of American Folklore