Alien Demonology: Its Christian Roots | UFO Religions

Alien Demonology: Its Christian Roots | UFO Religions

I’m going to be blogging through this article over the next few weeks. It is one of the few scholarly articles that deals with demonology and the belief in aliens. It’s written by Christopher Partridge, the same religious studies scholar who edited the book UFO Religions, and whose chapter in that book I blogged about with respect to “Balducci’s Conundrum.”

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According to the Greek historian Polybius of Megalopolis (c.200-c.118), the First Punic War (264-241) between Carthage and Rome was “the longest and most severely contested war in history”. And indeed, it lasted almost a quarter of a century and probably, a million people lost their lives. In the end, Rome had conquered the island of Sicily, and had become a Mediterranean superpower. On this website, you can find the story of the First Punic War as it is told in the first book of Polybius’ World History:

First Punic War

Alien Demonology: Its Christian Roots | UFO Religions

http://michaelsheiser.com/UFOReligions/2008/12/alien-demonology-its-christian-roots/

I’m going to be blogging through this article over the next few weeks. It is one of the few scholarly articles that deals with demonology and the belief in aliens. It’s written by Christopher Partridge, the same religious studies scholar who edited the book UFO Religions, and whose chapter in that book I blogged about with respect to “Balducci’s Conundrum.”