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The Conundrum of Evil
evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman princeton university press, 358 pages, $29.95 René Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, begins his Meditations(1641) on...
Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis
The question Ian Kershaw faces in the second volume of his massive biography is whether Hitler’s life has a coherent meaning for us, or whether it is as fragmented...
Hating Hitler
The Hitler of History by John Lukacs Knopf, 279 pages, $26 Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by Ron Rosenbaum Random House, 427 pages, $30...
Patterns of Unorthodoxy
American Originals By Paul K. Conkin University of North Carolina Press. 336 pp. $18.95 In a sermon to the shareholders of the Virginia Company in 1622, John Donne, poet...
The Death of Satan
The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil By Andrew Delbanco Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 274 pages, $23 Andrew Delbanco, Professor of the Humanities at...
The Accursed One
Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil. By Bernard McGinn Harper Collins 369 pp. $32.50 You have heard,” writes St. John in his epistles, “that Antichrist...
Beyond the Mainline Tale
The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney stark rutgers university press, 325 pages, $22.95 In mainline theological schools, divinity...
A Primer on the Devil
As modern religionists, we face a curious predicament when we think of the Devil. On the one hand, we know that the forests and glens of Western culture have...
