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Alan Jacobs on "Principalities & Powers"

Alan Jacobs on "Principalities & Powers"

Countering the temptation to demonize

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Apr 26, 2022
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“Whatever the demonic is, it is not, I am sure, inhabited by such creatures of the popular imagination.” - Alan Jacobs1

Alan Jacobs is distinguished professor of the humanities in the honors program at Baylor University. The line above comes from an essay he wrote in The New Atlantis, in which he plays with two ideas: that our problems might not be entir…

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