Anti-Christ
When
we examine the Christian interpretation of images, what strikes us at once is
that fact that the opposition, light-dark, is polarized in all these images.
The metaphysical split in the
god-image of Christianity, which sees God as the
summum bonum and excludes evil from the image, ascribing it either to man
or to the devil, runs through the whole field of ontology. Just as Christ
represents the incarnation of the good God, so the Antichrist represents the
power of evil. Hence all images can refer, at one and the same
time, either to Christ or the devil. P&R 47