Devil's Ink: Blog from the Basement Office - Softcover

Jeffrey C. Pugh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0800698142 ISBN 13: 9780800698140

Publisher: Fortress Press, 2011

Synopsis

Jeffrey Pugh writes not about our personal relationship with sin but about the forces and ideas to which humans give their lives, with great material effect on the world. He explores how evil embeds itself structurally in human life and how that can bring us misery and frustration. But he writes in a playful way that makes such reflections accessible to a broad spectrum of readers.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey C. Pugh is Maude Sharpe Powell Professor of Religious Studies at Elon University, North Carolina. He is also author of Entertaining the Triune Mystery: God, Science, and the Space Between (2003) and Religionless Christianity: Dietrich Bonhoeffer in Troubled Times (2008).

Review:

"True to their form, as of the Devil, these blogs have brilliant insights (much like the great sociologist-theologian Jacques Ellul) into the diabolical dangers of the media and other technologies. As these blogs disperse to us wise perceptions into the fiendish shrewdness of the evil powers, Pugh arouses us with such trenchant lines as, 'religion is a rank amateur in the death sweepstakes.' Readers will leave this book with much more comprehension into malignancy than they began!" --Marva J. Dawn, Internationally renowned theologian, author and educator

"Some think the devil lacks a sense of humor. Pugh's devil is indeed deadly serious, but in this hilarious and wise book we learn to laugh at Satan. Pugh teaches us how important it is to defy evil with humor." --Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University

"Where angels fear to tread, Jeffrey Pugh has rushed in to publish Satan's blog. Read Devil's Ink to find out how right Martin Luther was when he said 'Where God builds a church, the devil builds a chapel.' I laughed, I cried, I groaned, I grimaced, I gasped. But most of all, I grasped why God's bread is sweeter than the devil's chocolate." --Leonard Sweet, Drew University

About this edition

• Publisher: Fortress Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0800698142
• ISBN 13: 9780800698140
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192