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On The Dust Jacket Of Sin And Fear Is A Detail Of The Bosch Painting In Which Men And Women In Their Baptismal Suits Are Disporting Themselves About A Garden Of Earthly Delights. Whether The Ladies And Gentlemen Are Enjoying Lust, Or Just A Bit Of Artistic Luck, Is Not Quite Clear, But It Does Serve As An Appropriate Introduction To Sin And Fear And Guilt, At Least In The 15th Century. Part One: Pessimism And The Macabre In The Renaissance -- Contempt For The World And Mankind -- From Contempt For The World To The Danse Macabre -- Ambiguity Of The Macabre -- A Sinful World -- Fragile Humanity Part Two: A Failure Of Redemption -- Focusing The Examination Of Conscience -- The Realm Of The Confessor -- Original Sin -- The Man Of Perdition And The System Of Sin -- Religious Uneasiness Part Three: An Evangelism Of Fear In The Catholic World -- The Diffusion Of A Religious Doctrine -- Think On It Well -- The Tortures Of The Afterlife -- A Lynx-eyed God -- Sin And Sins -- The Ascetic Model -- The Difficulty Of Obligatory Confession -- The Catholic Doctrinal Campaign: An Attempt An Quantification Part Four: In The Protestant World -- You Are A Terrifying Word, Eternity -- Shared Aspects Of

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Author

Jean Delumeau

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

1990

Language

EN

ISBN

9780312035822

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Religion, Christian, History

Rating

4.31 / 5 (35 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13