Antichrist Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination With Evil
- Binding: Paperback
- Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
- Publish date: 03/01/2000
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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 always served the human need to understand the persistence of evil in the world, and examines how it has haunted the popular imagination in both the form of individuals -- such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein -- and groups -- Jews, heretics, Muslims.
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