From the Dualist Gnosis to the Imaginary Literature on the Devil. Review for the volume Imaginea nefratelui în literatură, author Simona-Maria Drelciu
From the Dualist Gnosis to the Imaginary Literature on the Devil. Review for the volume Imaginea nefratelui în literatură, author Simona-Maria Drelciu

Summary/Abstract: This paper represents an excellent overview of the censorship of the European collective imaginary, challenged as stranger of the one that is different, of the non-brother identified eventually as Satan. In the vision of the author Simona Maria Drelciuc, the Devil is the existential pole of the medieval imaginary, a fundamental cultural mark, “catalyst of the European civilization” (Drelciuc, 2015). This bringing into attention of the image of the non-brother allows us to reflect on the European civilization, of religious nature, and of “cultural periphery placement” of the Christian moral values such as love, tolerance etc.

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