Dr. Faustus: Condemned from the Beginning (an essay on "The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus", by Christopher Marlowe)

"The heart of man is the place the devil dwells in; I feel sometimes a hell dwells within myself." -Sir Thomas Browne Religio Medici Ever since it first swept the European continent, Christianity has decidedly secluded all of its members, and nonmembers, who practiced witchcraft or anything related to the occult. Believing the practice to be one of the highest forms of idolatry, as well as a direct disservice toward God, Christians fear witches for …

…into doing. Works Cited: Browne, Sir Thomas. Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Garden of Cyrus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Marlowe, Christopher. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. Vol. A. The Longman Anthology of British Literature. Ed. David Damrosch. 2nd ed. New York: Pearson Education, 2004. United States Catholic Conference. Catechism of the Catholic Church: Revised in Accordance With the Official Latin Text Promulgated by Pope John Paul II . 2nd ed. Washington, D.C: Random House, Inc, 1995.