Antichrist : two thousand years of the human fascination with evil /

McGinn, Bernard, 1937-,

Antichrist : two thousand years of the human fascination with evil / [print] Bernard McGinn. - first edition. - [San Francisco, California] : HarperSanFrancisco, (c)1994. - xiii, 369 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.



Perversion, blasphemy, and abomination: Jewish visions of God's enemies and the last days (c. 200 B.C.E.-50 C.E.) -- Christ's alter ego: the second Adam and his opposite (50-100) -- Persecution, heresy, and self-deceit: Antichrist in developing Christianity (100-500) -- Antichrist established: the final enemy in the early Middle Ages (500-1100) -- Church reform and Antichrist's imminence (1100-1200) -- Counterfeit holiness: the Papal Antichrist (1200-1335) -- Antichrist on the eve of the Reformation (1335-1500) -- Antichrist divided: Reformers, Catholics, and Puritans debate Antichrist (1500-1660) -- Antichrist in decline (1660-1900) -- Antichrist our contemporary.



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Antichrist--History of doctrines.

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