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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

Possession and Exorcism in the New Testament and Early Christianity

by Eric Sorensen

A scholarly study of how early Christians understood demonic possession and practised exorcism, set against Jewish, Greek and Roman backgrounds. Sorensen examines why exorcism, marginal in classical culture, became central to Christian identity.

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