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Devil

The devil is a mythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions. It is seen as the objectification of a hostile and destructive force. Jeffrey Burton Russell states that the different conceptions of the Devil can be summed up as 1. a principle of evil independent from God, 2. an aspect of God, 3. a created being…

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related to Sources · 158
Devil → Abnormal, Achim, Aesthetics, Alain, Albigensian Crusade, An, Andrei, Angels, Anormalen, Antiquity, April, Azazel, Band, Batka, Behavior, Bibliography, Bielefeld, Black, Boureau, BRILL
related to Names, titles, and epithets · 51
Devil → Accuser, Adversary, Ahriman, Arabic, Ash-Shaytan, Christianity, ChristianityKölski, Dark, Diabolos, Diabolus, German, Germany, God, Greek, Hell, Iblis, Iceland, IslamThe Lord, Jesus, Job
related to Revival of Dualism in the Medieval Age · 51
Devil → After, Alain, Albigensian Crusade, Armenia, Balkan, Balkans, Bogomil Dualism, Bogomilism, Bogomilite, Bogomilites, Borboritism, Cathar, Catharism, Cathars, Catholic Church, Christ, Cosmological, Durand, Fourth Council, Gnostic
related to Pre-Historic period to Archaic period · 35
Devil → Ahura Mazda, Alienated, Among, Angra Mainyu, Around, As, BC, By, Christianity, Egyptian, Even, Evil, For, God, Godhead, Godhead's, Good, Hindu, In, In Mesopotamia
related to Gnostic religions · 29
Devil → AD Gnostic, Apelles, Apocryphon, Catholic Encyclopedia, Creator, Creator God, Eusebius, Gnostic, Gnostic-influenced, God, Inspirer, Jewish, John, John Arendzen, Marcion, Marcions, Old Testament, On, One, Origin
related to Platonism and early Christianity in Antiquity · 29
Devil → According, Areopagite, As, Augustine, Christian, Christianity, Damascus, Demiurge, Details, God, Greek, Greek Platonism, Hippo, However, In, John, Matter, Neo-Platonists, Neoplatonic, One
related to Judaism · 26
Devil → Achaemenid Empire, Book, Christian, Evil, God, God's, Godhead, Hebrew, However, In, Isaiah, Jewish, Job, Jubilees, Judaism, Lord, Mastema, Nonetheless, Numbers, Satan
related to Spread through Europe in late Antiquity and early Medieval Age · 26
Devil → Abstract, At, By, Christian, Christian's, Christians, Due, Early Middle Ages, Ephesians, European, For, From, German, Greek, Greeks, In, Instead, Jesus Christ, Jews, Justin Martyr
related to In Sufism and mysticism · 23
Devil → Absolute, Christian, Divine, Eden, Garden, God, God's, Iblis, In, It, Many, Occidental, One, Pharao, Quran, Since, Sufi, The, The Qur, Therefore
related to Kant · 21
Devil → As, Christian, Deviating, Geistwesen, However, If, Immanuel Kant, Immanuel Kant's, In, In Religion Within, It, Kant, Lecture, Limits, Moral Philosophy, Nevertheless, Reason Alone, Since, The, The Devil

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Devilis amythical personification of evil as conceived in various cultures and religious traditions0.90text
Devilis aunique entity throughout the New Testament0.90text
Devilis apersonification of evil0.90text
Devilis aopposite of God0.90text
devilinstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
Sataninstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
etcinstance ofHenry Ansgar Kelly discusses various considerations and meanings that he has encountered in using terms0.80text
Nestorianisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Marcionisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Borboritisminstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
who all share the notion of a docetic Jesusinstance ofTheir true origin probably lies within earlier sects0.80text
Devilrelated to BuddhismMāra0.60section

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