Antichrist :two thousand years of the human fascination with evil /Bernard McGinn.
Description
Preface -- Introduction -- Perversion, blasphemy, and abomination: Jewish visions of god's enemies and the last days (c. 200 b.c.e.-50 C.E.) -- Christ's alter ego: the second Adam and his opposite (50-100) -- Persecution, heresy, and self-deceit: antichrist in developing Christianity (100-500) -- Antichrist established: the final enemy in the early middle ages (500-1100) -- Church reform and antichrist's imminence (1100-1200) -- Counterfeit holiness: the papal antichrist (1200-1335) -- Antichrist on the eve of the reformation (1335-1500) -- Antichrist divided: reformers, Catholics, and puritans debate antichrist (1500-1660) -- Antichrist in decline (1660-1900) -- Antichrist our contemporary -- Notes -- Index.
xxi, 369 p. :ill. ;21 cm.
Book Details
Author
McGinn, Bernard
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
circa 2000
Publication Subjects
Antichrist--History of doctrines.
Antichrist--gtt
Call No.
BT985 .M29 2000
ISBN
0231119771, 9780231119771
LCCN
99045369
Notes
Bibliography Note: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-351) and index.