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Can I read The Origin of Satan : How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics on EtoBox?
The Origin of Satan : How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics by Elaine H. Pagels is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Origin of Satan : How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics about?
From the National Book Award-winning and National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author of The Gnostic Gospels comes a dramatic interpretation of Satan and his role on the Christian tradition.'Arresting...brilliant...this book illuminates the angels with which we must wrestle to come to the truth of our bedeviling spritual problems.'—The Boston Globe With magisterial learning and the elan of a born storyteller, Pagels turns Satan's story into an audacious exploration of Christianity's shadow side, in which the gospel of love gives way to irrational hatreds that continue to haunt Christians and non-Christians alike.
Who reads The Origin of Satan : How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans, and Heretics?
It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.
Common subject areas: religion, theology.
- Author
- Elaine H. Pagels
- Publisher
- New York : Random House
- Published
- 2006
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679731184
- Category
- religious
- Subjects
- Christian, Fiction, Religion
- Rating
- 3.9 / 5 (4,978 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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