Satan Flashcards
Adversary/opponent
Satan (literally)
Spirit who tempts us and causes evil: created by God Bc of his free will he causes evil
Satan
Angels ; approached God
Sons of God
Morning Star
Lucifer
Book in bible where Satan took jobs life to forsake God but Job remained faithful/concept of theodicy
Book of Job
Said Satan was first being to sin against God punished for making Adam and Eve sin
Justin Martyr/Tertullian
Said Satan was jealous of Adam or God’s love for humans
Cyprian/Irenaeus
Influenced Christianity view of the devil
Great think es side STA; rational approach to mysteries of faith
Scholasticism
God created humans to replace empty spaces in heaven vacated by fallen angels
Anselmo of Canterbury
The devil was created good by God but evil thru free will
Fourth Lateran council
Devils did satans works; bodies, intellectual beings not susceptible of sins of flesh
St Thomas aquinas
Witches Casted spells by devil
Witch craze
Church splits into two claiming one is w devil
The reformation
Reason and science was dominate over faith
The enlightenment
Human emotions and experience ; Satan is heroic figure against unjust authority restrict laws by church
Romantic period
