The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism by Arthur Versluis (Oxford University Press, 2006) Hardcover

The New Inquisitions: Heretic-Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism by Arthur Versluis (Oxford University Press, 2006) HardcoverArthur Versluis. The New Inquisitions: Heretic Hunting and the Intellectual Origins of Modern Totalitarianism. Oxford University Press, 2006. Hardcover. 190 pages. Condition: Very Good in a Good dust jacket. Description from the publisher: The only book of its kind, The New Inquisitions is an exhilarating investigation into the intellectual origins of totalitarianism. Arthur Versluis unveils the connections between heretic hunting in early and

The idea that witches were members of organized heretical sects or part of a vast diabolical conspiracy crystalized most clearly in a handful of texts written in the 1430s and clustered geographically around the arc of the western Alps

A useful resource to have by one’s side upon undertaking an initiatory odyssey on the Path of Exile & Exalt – regardless of which favoured system or tradition the practitioner employs

and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain

church art

He has also contributed to Scriptures of the World's Religions (1998)

Some priestesses

Following the Salem witchcraft trials

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and were finally incorporated into the vernacular religious practice

in the 1950s and early 1960s

while Christian analysis tends to oversimplify the presence of religious symbolism