Demons are fallen angels, right? The Gospels never say so. Jimmy Akin and Dom Bettinelli trace the Greek word daimon from Homer’s gods and Hesiod’s ghosts to the Church Fathers, and find who first called a demon a fallen angel.
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Links for this episode:
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church, Paragraph 414
- Plato, Symposium (Perseus Digital Library)
- Hesiod, Works and Days (Project Gutenberg)
- Porphyry, On Abstinence from Animal Food, Book II
- The Book of Enoch (R. H. Charles translation)
- Justin Martyr, The First Apology (New Advent)
- Justin Martyr, The Second Apology (New Advent)
- Tatian, Address to the Greeks (New Advent)
- Athenagoras, A Plea for the Christians (New Advent)
- Theophilus of Antioch, To Autolycus, Book II (New Advent)
- Origen, De Principiis, Preface (New Advent)
- Lactantius, Divine Institutes, Book II (CCEL)
- Augustine, The City of God, Book V (New Advent)
- Fr. Gabriele Amorth, Possessioni Inquietanti – Anime Dannate e Vaganti (YouTube, in Italian)
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Chapters:
- 0:00:00 – Intro
- 0:01:17 – What is a demon?
- 0:02:36 – Demons in world religions
- 0:08:44 – The Catholic definition: fallen angels
- 0:10:41 – Demon, unclean spirit, evil spirit: one cluster
- 0:17:20 – The fallen angel cluster
- 0:23:04 – Reading without anachronism
- 0:24:57 – Daimon as a god: Homer
- 0:26:46 – Daimon as an intermediate being: Plato
- 0:27:52 – Porphyry’s sacrifice-craving daimones
- 0:31:24 – Ghosts of the golden race: Hesiod
- 0:33:57 – Good men become daimones: Plato
- 0:35:34 – Ordinary ghosts: Apuleius
- 0:37:48 – Lemurs and larvae
- 0:39:08 – Thank you to Patrons
- 0:39:39 – Sponsor: Fr. Dwight Longenecker
- 0:40:30 – Sponsor: Grave Tending Solutions
- 0:42:19 – Demons in the Septuagint
- 0:44:33 – The midday demon
- 0:47:07 – Goat demons in Isaiah
- 0:49:24 – Asmodeus in Tobit
- 0:52:44 – 1 Enoch: the spirits of the giants
- 0:56:30 – Jubilees and Mastema
- 1:00:16 – Philo: demons are angels
- 1:02:13 – Josephus: good and wicked ghosts
- 1:05:11 – Demons in later Judaism
- 1:08:40 – Church Fathers: Justin and Athenagoras
- 1:13:02 – Justin Martyr and human ghosts
- 1:14:50 – Tatian: the first fallen-angel demons
- 1:17:35 – Theophilus of Antioch
- 1:18:50 – Origen: still an open question
- 1:20:45 – Lactantius: two kinds of demons
- 1:23:07 – Augustine settles it in the West
- 1:24:31 – The New Testament: demons as pagan gods
- 1:27:44 – The demons Jesus cast out
- 1:29:23 – The Gerasene demoniac
- 1:32:15 – Beelzebul, the prince of demons
- 1:35:22 – Can the dead possess the living?
- 1:36:19 – Rule 14 and Fr. Gabriele Amorth
- 1:40:48 – The Earling exorcism and Begone Satan
- 1:42:37 – Anneliese Michel
- 1:46:21 – Faith Perspective
- 1:48:42 – Bottom Line
- 1:49:49 – Further Resources
- 1:50:35 – Mysterious Feedback: #431 Are Auras Real?
- 1:56:48 – Your mysterious feedback
- 1:57:22 – Thank you to Oasis Studio 7
- 1:57:34 – Jimmy’s YouTube channel
- 1:58:38 – Next Time: Pope Benedict on Adam, original sin and aliens
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- 1:59:15 – Show notes
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- 2:00:50 – Outro
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