LEADER 04070nam 2200553 450 001 9910820374103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8014-8056-6 010 $a1-5017-0332-3 010 $a1-5017-0333-1 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501703331 035 $a(CKB)3710000000836740 035 $a(DE-B1597)515870 035 $a(OCoLC)957435994 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501703331 035 $a(OCoLC)1227051693 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse78571 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4517882 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11248545 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4517882 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000836740 100 $a20160903h19881988 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Prince of Darkness $eradical evil and the power of good in history /$fJeffrey Burton Russell 210 1$aIthaca, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cCornell University Press,$d1988. 210 4$dİ1988 215 $a1 online resource (303 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aCornell Paperbacks 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8014-2014-8 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tPreface -- $t1. Evil -- $t2. The Devil around the World -- $t3. The Good Lord and the Devil -- $t4. Christ and the Power of Evil -- $t5. Satan and Heresy -- $t6. Dualism and the Desert -- $t7. The Classical Christian View -- $t8. Lucifer Popular and Elite -- $t9. Scholastics, Poets, and Dramatists -- $t10. Nominalists, Mystics, and Witches -- $t11. The Devil and the Reformers -- $t12. High on a Throne of Royal State -- $t13. The Disintegration of Hell -- $t14. From Romance to Nihilism -- $t15. The Integration of Evil -- $t16. Auschwitz and Hiroshima -- $t17. The Meaning of Evil -- $tAppendixes -- $tIndex 330 $aThe Devil, Satan, Lucifer, Mephistopheles - throughout history the Prince of Darkness, the Western world's most powerful symbol of evil, has taken many names and shapes. Jeffrey Burton Russell here chronicles the remarkable story of the Devil from antiquity to the present. While recounting how past generations have personified evil, he deepens our understanding of the ways in which people have dealt with the enduring problem of radical evil. After a compelling essay on the nature of evil, Russell uncovers the origins of the concept of the Devil in various early cultures and then traces its evolution in Western thought from the time of the ancient Hebrews through the first centuries of the Christian era. Next he turns to the medieval view of the Devil, focusing on images found in folklore, scholastic thought, art, literature, mysticism, and witchcraft. Finally, he follows the Devil into our own era, where he draws on examples from theology, philosophy, art, literature, and popular culture to describe the great changes in this traditional notion of evil brought about by the intellectual and cultural developments of modern times. Is the Devil an outmoded superstition, as most educated people today believe? Or do the horrors of the twentieth century and the specter of nuclear war make all too clear the continuing need for some vital symbol of radical evil? A single-volume distillation of Russell's epic tetralogy on the nature and personifcation of evil from ancient times to the present (published by Cornell University Press between 1977 and 1986), The Prince of Darkness invites readers to confront these and other critical questions as they explore the past faces of that figure who has been called the second most famous personage in Christianity. 606 $aDevil$xHistory of doctrines 606 $aGood and evil$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aDevil$xHistory of doctrines. 615 0$aGood and evil$xHistory of doctrines. 676 $a235.47 700 $aRussell$b Jeffrey Burton$0183628 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820374103321 996 $aThe Prince of Darkness$93972970 997 $aUNINA