The Devil by Philip C. Almond5/21/2023 The “new-ness” here is about style rather than substance. So, what’s new? The answer, in the case of this concise volume by the professor emeritus of religion at the University of Queensland, is, I’m afraid, not very much. Novelists, early church fathers, popes, bishops, inquisitors, exorcists, and all those seeking to scare the rest of us either into submission or simple sleeplessness. For 2,000 years he (or she, but even that is of course an angle that’s been done to death) has been discussed and debated, dissected and deconstructed, by theologians, academics, film-makers, Putting to one side having become a back number, I did also wonder what there possibly might be to say about the Devil that hasn’t been said before. But then publishers take the view that, every 20 years or so (or fewer if it’s the likes of Austen, Dickens or Churchill), every decent subject can be “done” again. I confess to a slight hurt, as when I offer to lend my teenage son a treasured jacket and he groans, “Oh, Dad, that’s so last century.” Some 18 years ago, I wrote my own biography of the Devil, and of course thought it very new at the time. It’s the “new” bit in the subtitle that caught my eye.
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