Christian Humanist Profiles Episode 279: Philip Ziegler

I’ve spent a fair bit of my professional life among devils.  Dante’s gigantic Satan never was much of a talker, but Marlowe’s Mephistopheles and Goethe’s diminished version of Mephisto never shut up.  Milton’s Satan lies so much he convinces himself, and the strange devil who visits Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov remains a logic-chopping favorite.  But as much time as I spend with literary devils, and as much time as I spend talking to theologians, I don’t spend a lot of time talking with theologians about devils.  Today we’re going to try to correct that as Christian Humanist Profiles welcomes Dr. Philip Ziegler to talk about his recent book God’s Adversary and Ours: A Brief Theology of the Devil.