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Jeffrey Burton Russell

Born

in Fresno, California, The United States

August 01, 1943

Died

April 12, 2023

Genre

History, Religion & Spirituality

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Jeffrey Burton Russell was an American historian of medieval Europe and religious studies scholar.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 2,662 ratings · 326 reviews · 34 distinct works • Similar authors

	A History of Witchcraft: Sorcerers, Heretics, and Pagans 3.78 avg rating — 932 ratings — published 1980 — 28 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Devil: Perceptions of Evil from Antiquity to Primitive Christianity 4.02 avg rating — 332 ratings — published 1977 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Prince of Darkness: Radical Evil and the Power of Good in History 3.91 avg rating — 264 ratings — published 1988 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages 4.03 avg rating — 230 ratings — published 1984 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Satan: The Early Christian Tradition 3.94 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1981 — 21 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World 4.08 avg rating — 193 ratings — published 1986 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Witchcraft in the Middle Ages 3.75 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 1972 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Inventing the Flat Earth: Columbus and Modern Historians by Jeffrey Burton Russell, David F. Noble (Foreword) 4.09 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 2014 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A New History of Witchcraft by Jeffrey Burton Russell, Brooks Alexander 3.76 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 1980 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exposing Myths About Christianity: A Guide to Answering 145 Viral Lies and Legends 3.80 avg rating — 59 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Jeffrey Burton Russell's History of the Devil (5 books)
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Jeffrey Burton Russell,

Džefri Barton Rasel,

Milena Petrović-Radulović (Translator)

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“As the sign of a deeper truth, metaphor was close to sacrament. Because the vastness and richness of reality cannot be expressed by the overt sense of a statement alone.”
― Jeffrey Burton Russell

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“The problem of evil can be stated simply: God is omnipotent; God is perfectly good; such a God would not permit evil to exist; but we observe that evil exists; therefore God does not exist. Variations on this theme are nearly infinite. The problem is not only abstract and philosophical, of course; it is also personal and immediate. Believers tend to forget that their God takes away everything that one cares about: possessions, comforts, success, profession or craft, knowledge, friends, family and life. What kind of God is this? Any decent religion must face this question squarely, and no answer is credible that cannot be given in the face of dying children.”
― Jeffrey Burton Russell, Mephistopheles: The Devil in the Modern World

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“Renaissance painters saw everything from one perspective, photographically, "realistically," but medieval painters looked at a scene from several different perspectives at once. A medieval picture looked at with this in mind becomes very exciting indeed. It is as if the artist is everywhere at once: the castle is tiny as if seen from afar; the men on its battlements huge as if encountered face to face; this lake is seen from that distance and that tree from this.”
― Jeffrey Burton Russell, Medieval Civilization

tags: art-history, cultural-history, medieval-history, perspective

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