Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany by H. C. Erik Midelfort

Exorcism and Enlightenment: Johann Joseph Gassner and the Demons of Eighteenth-Century Germany

Terry Lectures (Hardcover)

H. C. Erik Midelfort

219 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative medium-paced

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In the late eighteenth century, Catholic priest Johann Joseph Gassner (1727-1779) discovered that he had extraordinary powers of exorcism. Deciding that demons were responsible for most human ailments, he healed thousands, rich and poor, Protestan...

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