Peter Stanford, Author Henry Holt & Company $25 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3910-8
According to a persistent legend, around A.D. 1100 a young English woman named Joan disguised herself as a man and was elected as pope. Pope Joan reigned for about two years until, as the story goes, she died after giving birth to a child. Stanford...
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Peter Stanford, Author Henry Holt & Company $27.5 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8050-3082-2
Now that Jack Miles has written God's biography (God: A Biography, 1995), Peter Stanford must give the Devil his due and tell the life story of Old Scratch. The personification of evil in a figure who co-exists with the goodness of God entered...
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Peter Stanford, Author Palgrave MacMillan $35 (400p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6360-4
The author of The Devil: A Biography and Catholics and Sex explores the idea of the afterworld, considering in this thoroughly researched book how the search for life after death is connected with the desire to fully live. Drawing upon a plethora of
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Peter Stanford. Counterpoint (PGW, dist.), $28 (320p) ISBN 978-1-61902-709-1
In April 2006, scholars announced the discovery of the Gospel of Judas to great fanfare, though the fragmentary text, likely written almost 200 years after Judas Iscariot’s death, shed little light on the most vilified of Jesus’s followers. In this...
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