Antichrist

Erscheinungsjahr 2000
ISBN: 978-0-231-11977-1
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 369 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 134 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 395 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Simmons, Amy

McGinn, Bernard

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone Donnelly Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago, is the author of many books, including Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages (Columbia).