Word: demonicism
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"No Demonic Destiny . . ." The big blow of the week, the opening of the campaign's last grand assault, was delivered from Detroit's Masonic Temple before a nationwide radio and TV audience. The subject: Korea, which Eisenhower and his aides believe to be the campaign's No...
Appointing a confessor who was a sworn enemy of Grandier, Sister Jeanne began to confide to him her symptoms of a demonic infestation that clearly indicated Grandier as the infester. Soon 16 other nuns, under the vivid suggestion of their prioress' example, found themselves with demon: here Leviathan in...
The 30 essays in the book jump from the theological aspects of evil to the psychology of witchcraft and demonic possession. Tolerantly and patiently written, they draw in their sum an interesting picture of a basic Christian doctrine which has had more than its share of rough handling.
Exorcists & Psychiatrists. While sticking up for the existence of demonic possession, the authors readily concede that many people reportedly "possessed by the Devil" probably belong in the psychiatrist's consulting room, not the chapel. The frantic witch burnings of the 16th century, furthermore, in which Protestants and Catholics participated...
But in the U.S., Protestantism lost much, too. Christians began thinking of themselves not primarily as Christians but as Augustana Lutherans, or Reformed Presbyterians, or Two-Seed-in-the-Spirit Predestinarian Baptists. Denominationalism became demonic. And with so much control in the hands of a material-minded laity, secularism became...