num_pages: 214
description: 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 GlobeWith 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.
language: English
title: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
titlecomplete: The Origin of Satan: How Christians Demonized Jews, Pagans and Heretics
characters: Lucifer
genres: Mythology, Religion, Theology, Philosophy, Spirituality, Christian, Judaism, Nonfiction, History, Christianity
ratings_count: 6803
publisher: Vintage