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evil in modern thought: an alternative history of philosophy by susan neiman  princeton university press, 358 pages, $29.95 René Descartes, the father of modern philosophy, begins his Meditations(1641) on...

Hitler 1936–1945: Nemesis by ian kershaw w. w. norton, 1168 pages, $40.10 The question Ian Kershaw faces in the second volume of his massive biography is whether Hitler’s life...

The Hitler of History by john lukacs knopf, 279 pages, $8.29 Explaining Hitler: The Search for the Origins of His Evil by ron rosenbaum random house, 427 pages, $16.97...

American Originals by paul k. conkin university of north carolina press, 336 pages, $18.95 In a sermon to the shareholders of the Virginia Company in 1622, John Donne, poet...

The Death of Satan: How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil by andrew delbanco farrar, straus & giroux, 274 pages, $23 Andrew Delbanco, Professor of the Humanities at...

Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evilby bernard mcginn harper collins, 369 pages, $32.50 You have heard,” writes St. John in his epistles, “that Antichrist is...

The Churching of America, 1776–1990: Winners and Losers In Our Religious Economy by roger finke and rodney stark rutgers university press, 325 pages, $22.95 In mainline theological schools, divinity...

As modern religionists, we face a curious predicament when we think of the Devil. On the one hand, we know that the forests and glens of Western culture have...