User:Albert Lento/Christian demonology/Bibliography

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'''Fuller, Hailey Marie, "From Daimon to Demon: The Evolution of the Demon from Antiquity to Early Christianity" (2013). UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones. 1826. (p. 60-68)'''

This article discusses how christians would go against Satan, like converting pagans to christianity or helping to cure diseases because diseases were associated with the devil. The article touches on how the thought of the demon evolved to not just being a physical thing but an idea like greed. A monk mentioned that the only way to get to heaven was to resist the urges that the demons give oneself. The concept of pagan religions transformed to the worship of demons in the christian faith which in turn made it okay to go against those other religions. There is not much written about the author of this article (Hailey Marie Fuller). However, the article does appear to be scholarly, and the article regularly cites other sources for information. So if you wanted to you could fact check the information in the article. I could add a section to Wikipedia about how the worship of other religions was seen as worshiping the devil.

Malleus Maleficarum, Part 2, Chapter VIII, "But all three kinds have this in common, that though they are very heavy," hosted on the Internet Sacred Text Archive

The Wiki article Christian Demonology is about the evolution of the image of Demons in the Christian faith. The Wiki article is organized by first talking about the origin of how demons got into the Christian faith, then the article discusses how the number 666 became associated with demons, it talks about what demons look like, and it talks about the ability of demons to possess people. The Wiki article didn’t have any source that was used more than once, so I settled on Malleus Maleficarum which discusses what demons and witches have the ability to do. Some demons can injure but can’t cure, cure but not injure, and some can do both. The text goes into what is involved in making a pact with a demon, such as giving your soul to them for eternity. This text seems relevant to the Wiki article because it touches on the ability of demons and what they do, this aspect is included in the Wiki article. Is this text accurate to the catholic belief however? According to another Wikipedia article, this text went against what the catholic church agreed with at the time. This text does give us an insight into demons, however I’m not sure if this is a good article to incorporate into the Wiki article because of the fact that the Church didn’t approve of this book as being correct in the catholic religion. With that being said, it does give us insights into what other people that werent the church believed.

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