Anti-Christ: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil - Softcover

Bernard McGinn

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0231119771 ISBN 13: 9780231119771

Publisher: Columbia University Press, 1999

Synopsis

In this timely and sweeping exploration, one of the greatest living historians of Christian thought traces the concept of Antichrist from its Judeo-Christian origins to the present day. Rooted in Second Temple Judaism--a period of intense religious and political disruption--Antichrist developed out of belief in malevolent angelic and human forces. McGinn demonstrates how Antichrist has often reflected the human need to comprehend the persistence of evil in the world, and examines how it has haunted popular imagination in both the form of indivuduals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims.

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Book Description:

McGinn demonstrates how Antichrist has often reflected the human need to comprehend the persistence of evil in the world, and examines how it has haunted popular imagination in both the form of individuals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims.

From the Publisher:

A timely and sweeping exploration of the epitome of earthly evil--from Second Temple Judaism to the close of the twentieth century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0231119771
• ISBN 13: 9780231119771
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 369