Satan : The Early Christian Tradition by Jeffrey Burton Russell (1981, Hardcover)

Cornell University Press

0801412676

9780801412677

424790

Satan : the Early Christian Tradition

Jeffrey Burton Russell

Hardcover

English

Demonology & Satanism, Christian Theology / Angelology & Demonology, Christian Church / History

1981

Yes

Religion

258 Pages

9 in

1 in

6.2 in

32.1 Oz

Trade

Bt981

College Graduate Student

Russell has complete mastery of his material, and the book's sweep is grand: a tour of the first five centuries of Christian intellectual history with the spotlight on the villain instead of the hero.... Satan is a valuable introduction to the theological portion of the Western Devil tradition., Drawing extensively on earlier scholarly literature, as well as his own original research in complex source materials, Russell has offered a coherent account of the development of a tradition in Christian thought that should be of great interest to specialists and nonspecialists alike. Although Russell would be the very last to claim that he can draw out leviathan with a hook, he has competently and diligently drawn out an image of leviathan that takes a respectable place in the literature of early church history.

1987

81-066649

235/.47

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