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Against the Darkness: The Doctrine of Angels, Satan, and Demons is unavailable, but you can change that!

Many Christians live as though they are effectively alone. However, there is another realm of intelligent life that plays a role in the world—angelic beings. This book explores the doctrine of angels and demons, answering key questions about their nature and the implications for Christians’ beliefs and behavior, helping readers see their place in the larger biblical plotline that includes...

the educated West. From the first half of the nineteenth century, Friedrich Schleiermacher provides evidence of the change in Zeitgeist after the Enlightenment in some church circles. In his The Christian Faith, which some judge the most important dogmatic work after Calvin and before Barth, he argues concerning the devil, “The idea of the Devil, as developed among us, is so unstable that we cannot expect anyone to be convinced of its truth.”3 However, the Western world is becoming a “reenchanted”
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