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Antichrist - by Amy Simmons (Paperback)

Antichrist - by  Amy Simmons (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Amy Simmons follows an account of the film's making with an in-depth consideration of the themes and issues arising from it<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>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 individuals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Rarely has a historian of Christianity pierced a murkily inchoate human impulse with so much enlightenment as McGinn--Publishers Weekly<br><br>A splendid historical survey of images of Antichrist in the Western religious traditions....The book's topic is timely, its scholarship impeccable, and its presentation masterful.--C. H. Lippy "Choice "<br><br>First and foremost, it's very well written... The book is still masterpiece of thorough academic religious research.--Stefan Isaksson "www.ufo.se "<br><br>I can only salute this broad, judicious yet comprehensive survey of beliefs about the Antichrist....This is a wonderful, beautifully written and challenging book, surely the best one-volume introduction to the subject.--John Van Engen, director of the Medieval Institute and professor of history at the University of Notre Dame "Christian Century "<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>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 <i>Visions of the End: Apocalyptic Traditions in the Middle Ages</i> (Columbia).

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