Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures PHO and significance as interpreted by

and significance as interpreted by four of the major Christian traditions:

Part the thorny bramble and take a walk along the bewitchingly mysterious Crooked Path

One evening in 1588

Beginning with a lengthy exploration of the forms of the Adversary throughout history

Publish Date: 23 April 2009

Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures PHO and significance as interpreted byWhat if there had been no World War I or no Russian Revolution? What if Napoleon had won at Waterloo in 1815, or if Martin Luther had not nailed his complaints to the church door at Wittenberg in 1517, or if the South had won the American Civil War? The questioning of apparent certainties or known knowns can be fascinating and, indeed, What if? books are very popular. However, this speculative approach, known as counterfactualism, has had limited