The Devil Revisited: A Discussion of Philip G. Ziegler's God's Adversary and Ours

The devil, the figure styled by John Calvin as “God’s enemy and ours,” is ubiquitous in the witness of the New Testament, but contemporary Christian doctrine generally remains dumbfounded about what to do with him. At the same time, modern impulses have yielded a resurgence in the language of the “demonic”—that is, pervasive, pernicious, personified evil. In light of this perplexity, Philip G. Ziegler raises and seeks to answer a pointed question in his book God's Adversary and Ours: Can the gospel actually be heard and understood without meaningful reference to this inimical entity? 
This panel will discuss Ziegler's cautious but determined biblical-theological exploration of the identity, ontology, and agency of the devil.