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The Death of Satan How Americans Have Lost the Sense of Evil

Andrew Delbanco

Through the writings of America's major figures, a professor at Columbia University traces the change in Americans' view of evil over the nation's history from a clear, religious understanding to a perplexed helplessness.

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Timothy Keller Sermons Podcast by Gospel in Life

It was described as discussing the growing disconnect between the pervasiveness of evil and the lack of intellectual tools to address it in Western culture; it was also mentioned that the author identifies as a secular liberal.

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a gulf has opened in our culture between the visibility of evil and the intellectual resources to cope with it

— Episode: Spiritual Warfare

Episode: Spiritual Warfare

It was described as discussing the growing disconnect between the pervasiveness of evil and the lack of intellectual tools to address it in Western culture; it was also mentioned that the author identifies as a secular liberal.

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a gulf has opened in our culture between the visibility of evil and the intellectual resources to cope with it

that we've jettisoned in the West the idea of cosmic evil or transcendent evil or supernatural evil

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