...Simon J. James © 2013 Leeds Trinity University College 2013 Abstract Marie Corelli's The Sorrows of Satan (1895) presents a paradoxical test case for the practice of academic literary criticism. The best-selling work of fiction of the nineteenth century, the book was demeaned...

...This chapter explores Luther's view of the fallen human creature: Satan. Luther employed vantage points in viewing the relationship of God and humans. God as the creator and continuing lord of human life and human creatures is above all created to fear, love, and trust. He developed a concept...

... of theistic or esoteric Satanism. average age increase of rebelliousness Satanism Satanic Satanas Venus journalistic treatment LaVey Anton Szandor violence Nazism murder Satanism satanic milieu Anton LaVey Church of Satan theistic Satanism Order of Nine Angles Up until the first decade...

...In addition to the standard kind of demographic questions one asks on a questionnaire, all of the three “Satan Surveys” administered as part of this research project contained questions that asked respondents about their worldview and practices. Thus, for example, across the course of the three...

...The landscape of Satanism is continually adapting to social changes and internal schisms. The epilogue briefly traces some of the recent events concerning the rationalist part of the scene to understand the power of pranks and the dynamics of friction and replacement prevalent in the satanic milieu...

... — like Satan himself — could only be a contingent being, always ‘a function of another, not an independent entity’. At the level explored in this study — that of demonological texts — witchcraft may even be one of the most extreme examples of oppositionalism in Western culture. Bible texts language...

..., people in those situations and countries have taken actions—sometimes wittingly, sometimes not—that have given Satan and his demons legal rights to control the physical territory of each country. The first response from some observers to such supernaturalist explanations is to dismiss them as marginal...

...This introductory chapter provides an overview of John Milton's Paradise Lost (1667). Paradise Lost tells the story of two falls. There is the unending fall of Satan and his followers, and there is the Fall—and spiritual regeneration—of Adam and Eve. Satan's story...

...This chapter focuses on Satan's envy, a condition associated with vision. Satan's envy links vision to time, and to the finite goods of the world. His refusal to bow down before what he takes to be a temporal image of God corresponds to the later historical rejection of the incarnate Son...

...This chapter on Paradise Lost is a diptych. The first of its panels shows the origin of evil, hence sin, in Satan’s envy when the Son is exalted, an envy that underlies Satan’s self-authoring pride. This panel focuses on negation and death. The second panel, which examines God’s...

... fathers Gnosticism mysticism Dualism Ugo Bianchi Qumran Gnosticism Satan Zoroastrianism structural anthropology demiurge The problem of the nature and dynamics of the interrelations between traditions of religious dualism and Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is of major importance...

... presents the Fall of Man in Paradise Lost as strung between two moments of sexual utopianism. At the heart of Paradise Lost is Milton's free-will theology, the belief that man can choose between good and evil; Satan rebelled of his own free will, Adam chose fatally...

..., and conquers evil, Satan, and death. He brings God’s peace, God’s shalom. He offers himself as a sacrifice for sin. He creates the community of the new covenant. Jesus’ ultimate work is to reign as Lord. Hurtado L W Council of Chalcedon Fee G D Hays R B Henderson S W John the Evangelist Keck L E Council...

.... This chapter discusses Black Sunday's influence that was not only felt in the movies. It mentions Marvel man Jack Kirby that used the central Mask of Satan image and the character Javuto as inspiration for Doctor Doom, including the backstory of being the son of an Eastern European witch...

.... In prose works such as Eikonoklastes, A Defense of the English People, and Brief Notes upon a Late Sermon, Milton champions an emerging idea of treason as an attack on the law rather than as an attack on the king. This definition of treason informs his treatment of both Adam and Eve's and Satan's rebellion...

...In Book 4 of Paradise Lost, Milton depicts Satan in terms of the successive laws that he violates, and the trajectory he plots is a careful one. Satan moves from relatively minor crimes such as "contempt" and "trespass" to more serious ones. When Milton calls Satan a "grand thief" and an "arch...

...This chapter presents a few points on how selves can and should go about shaping their futures. It also takes a look at Satan, the fallen angel who does not appreciate his vulnerability. The chapter concludes that the future of vulnerable subjects not only is, but should be, an uncertain history...

...” and in an apocryphal tale about Adam’s pact with Satan. More common than depictions of a full-blown Devil are the petty demons (besy) invoked in magical spells, and the small, black, pointy headed and winged devils whose nearly featureless silhouettes appear on icons if and only if they are necessary...

... a warning to Satan as Dante and Virgil enter the fourth circle of Hell, but Virgil's harsh rebuke silences him and allows the travelers to pass unscathed. Dante now sees a multitude of shades damned for the sin of avarice or its opposite, prodigality. The two groups push heavy boulders with their chests...