Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity
Biographical note
Nienke Vos, Ph.D. (2003), Utrecht University, is Associate Professor of Patristics in the Classics Department of VU University, Amsterdam. She has published essays on hagiography and the use of Scripture, and is a member of the Dutch Center for Patristic Research (CPO).
Willemien Otten, Ph.D. (1989), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. She has published on Western medieval and early Christian theology, ranging from Tertullian to the twelfth century. With Karla Pollmann (St. Andrews) she edits the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine.
Willemien Otten, Ph.D. (1989), University of Amsterdam, is Professor of the Theology and History of Christianity at the University of Chicago. She has published on Western medieval and early Christian theology, ranging from Tertullian to the twelfth century. With Karla Pollmann (St. Andrews) she edits the Oxford Guide to the Historical Reception of Augustine.
Readership
All those interested in intellectual history, the history of the early Church, the history of late antiquity, and the history of medieval Christianity as well as a general audience of theologians, historians, and classicists.
Table of contents
Nienke Vos, Demons and the Devil in Ancient and Medieval Christianity: Introduction, Summary, Reflection
Gerd Theißen, Monotheismus und Teufelsglaube: Entstehung und Psychologie des biblischen Satansmythos
Keimpe Algra, Stoics on Souls and Demons: Reconstructing Stoic Demonology
The New Testament and its Reception in Early Christianity
Geert van Oyen, Demons and Exorcisms in the Gospel of Mark
Hagit Amirav, The Application of Magical Formulas of Invocation in Christian Contexts
Toon Bastiaensen, Exorcism: Tackling the Devil by Word of Mouth
Ancient Christianity
Theodoor Korteweg, Justin Martyr and his Demon-ridden Universe
Nienke Vos, Demons Without and Within: The Representation of Demons, the Saint, and the Soul in Early Christian Lives, Letters and Sayings
Boudewijn Dehandschutter, Demons among the Messalians
Medieval Christianity
Gerard Bartelink, Denominations of the Devil and Demons in the Missale Gothi¬cum
Willemien Otten, Overshadowing or Foreshadowing Return: The Role of Demons in Eriugena’s Periphyseon
Babette Hellemans, Horror vacui: Evil in the Incarnated World of the Bibles Moralisées
Gerd Theißen, Monotheismus und Teufelsglaube: Entstehung und Psychologie des biblischen Satansmythos
Keimpe Algra, Stoics on Souls and Demons: Reconstructing Stoic Demonology
The New Testament and its Reception in Early Christianity
Geert van Oyen, Demons and Exorcisms in the Gospel of Mark
Hagit Amirav, The Application of Magical Formulas of Invocation in Christian Contexts
Toon Bastiaensen, Exorcism: Tackling the Devil by Word of Mouth
Ancient Christianity
Theodoor Korteweg, Justin Martyr and his Demon-ridden Universe
Nienke Vos, Demons Without and Within: The Representation of Demons, the Saint, and the Soul in Early Christian Lives, Letters and Sayings
Boudewijn Dehandschutter, Demons among the Messalians
Medieval Christianity
Gerard Bartelink, Denominations of the Devil and Demons in the Missale Gothi¬cum
Willemien Otten, Overshadowing or Foreshadowing Return: The Role of Demons in Eriugena’s Periphyseon
Babette Hellemans, Horror vacui: Evil in the Incarnated World of the Bibles Moralisées
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