Word: demonicism
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Why do the Gospels say nothing about Jesus' sexuality? One reason, Driver suggests, may be that Christ himself is the "great neutralizer" of the religious meaning of sex. In other literature of saviour figures and spiritual heroes, the protagonist is either "a champion of sexual renewal or a warrior...
Gigantic Tantrum. The last half of Swift's life has been aptly described as a "gigantic tantrum." His Luciferian will to power raged in tiny Dublin like a demon in a bottle. "I have determined," he bellowed, "to have no one about me I that denies my authority!" He...
ARISTOS, by John Fowles. The author of The Collector, a brilliant demonic novel, turns to philosophy. His mentor is ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus who also wrote of aristos (the excellent in life), and Fowles shares his love of paradox, his clear-eyed contemplation and, particularly, his eloquence.
There could be little doubt of Oswald's guilt," wrote TIME two weeks after President Kennedy's assassination, and continued, "Lee Oswald was plainly a man of demonic frustrations and fanaticisms." Most of the U.S. press shared that conclusion, but the major job of reporting then shifted from...
This month, for example, saw the publication of a Catholic textbook survey by scholars at Jesuit-run St. Louis University that listed a number of pejorative references to Jews (and Protestants)-and urged textbook writers to take greater care in discussing other faiths. The Lutheran World Federation's Commission...