Antichrist: Two Thousand Years of the Human Fascination with Evil por McGinn, Bernard - 1994

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1994. xiii, 369 pages, illustrations; 25 cm. Tight, clean copy. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. A fine copy of the first printing. CONTENTS: Perversion, blasphemy, and abomination: Jewish visions of God's enemies and the last days (c. 200 B.C.E.-50 C.E.); Christ's alter ego: the second Adam and his opposite (50-100); Persecution, heresy, and self-deceit: Antichrist in developing Christianity (100-500); Antichrist established: the final enemy in the early Middle Ages (500-1100); Church reform and Antichrist's imminence (1100-1200); Counterfeit holiness: the Papal Antichrist (1200-1335); Antichrist on the eve of the Reformation (1335-1500); Antichrist divided: Reformers, Catholics, and Puritans debate Antichrist (1500-1660); Antichrist in decline (1660-1900); Antichrist our contemporary.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.