The Devil
A Very Short Introduction
$28.36
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
14 June 2012
Summary
Why do the innocent suffer in a world created by a loving God? Does this mean that God cannot prevent this suffering, despite His supposed omnipotence? Or is God not loving after all? This in brief is ‘the problem of evil’. The Devil provides one solution to this problem: his rebellion against God and hatred of His works is responsible for evil.
The Christian Devil has fascinated writers and theologians since the time of the New Testament, and inspired many dramatic and haunting works…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780199580996 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0199580995 |
| Author: | Darren Oldridge |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
| Imprint: | Oxford University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 14 June 2012 |
| Weight: | 114g |
| Dimensions: | 174mm x 113mm x 8mm |
| Series: | Very Short Introductions |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
This book may appeal to those wanting a short but insightful survey of those understandings of evil that the devil represents.
This book may appeal to those wanting a short but insightful survey of those understandings of evil that the devil represents. * Reform Magazine *Devil believer or devil-denier, you’ll find plenty to get your teeth into here. * Northern Echo *In this densely researched and drily elegant book, Satan is pursued through Augustine, Marlowe, Milton, Shelley, Blake, Goethe, Ambrose Bierce, Auden and CS Lewis’s Screwtape, tales of self-mortification and witch-hunting, painting and the cinema. * Steven Poole, The Guardian *
About The Author
Darren Oldridge
Darren Oldridge is a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Worcester. For ten years his research and teaching has focused on the Devil, witchcraft and the concept of evil. He is the author the expanded second edition of The Witchcraft Reader (Routledge 2008), and Strange Histories (Routledge 2005).
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