Restless Dead by Sarah Iles Johnston
Author:Sarah Iles Johnston [Johnston, Sarah Iles]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
[as] . . . a newly established group committed to mutual love, its leaders acutely sensitive to the "worldly smoke" of rivalry, [Christianity] could hardly survive the interplay of blame and envy that accompanied a belief in human agents of misfortune. What we find instead is a "humanizing" of the suprahuman agents of evil. In all Christian literature, the ambivalent and somewhat faceless daemones of pagan belief are invested with the precise, unambiguous negative attributes and motives that Libanius still saw in a professional rival who resorted to sorcery.... if there is misfortune, it is divorced from a human reference and the blame is pinned firmly on the "spiritual powers of evil." Men joined the new community to be delivered from the demons and the new community, in turn, resolved its tensions by projecting them in the form of an even greater demonic menace from outside.97
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