Book Specs
Binding
Trade Paper
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Published on
Dec 7, 1999
Edition
1st Edition
Dimensions
7.90x5.20x1.00 Inches
Weight
1.00 Pounds
About the Book
In this timely and sweeping exploration, one of the greatest living historians of Christian thought traces the concept of Antichrist from its Judeo-Christian origins to the present day. Rooted in Second Temple Judaism--a period of intense religious and political disruption--Antichrist developed out of belief in malevolent angelic and human forces. 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 indivuduals--such as Nero, Napoleon, and Saddam Hussein--and groups--Jews, heretics, Muslims.