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A Book Forged in Hell: Spinoza's Scandalous Treatise Young Adult Nonfiction reminding us that even KierkegaardThe story of one of the most important and incendiary books in Western history When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published "godless," "full of abominations," "a book forged in hell . . . by the devil himself." Religious and secular authorities saw it as a threat to faith, social and political harmony, and everyday morality, and its author was almost universally