Sorcery ion Christendom

As one of the people in the group for the discussion of this chapter, I figured I would write a bit about my thoughts on the chapter. This chapter is about sorcery in Christendom (as you can tell by the title). This chapter goes on to take a religious view of magic and how it relates to Christianity. Tonie touched on this topic briefly in her post with the views of the Devil being magic. This was a big question to me when reading the chapter. Why is the Devil's power considered magic, but God's power is considered miracles? This gives magic the notion of being evil, since it is correlated so closely to the Devil. But with magic being considered evil by the church, why do people study it? Well it seems people still studied it since a lot of magic was used for good. Like magical cures or spells to ward off evil spirits. But if magic was the Devils power how come so much magic was for good and not evil. This lead me to think more about how we perceive magic today. In most movies magic has no real connotation as good or evil, as it is used by both good and evil as more of a tool. The good and evil aspect focuses more on the magic user than the magic itself. I guess the is kind of what it was like back then as well, but in the eyes of the church all magic was evil, regardless of the user. Now for those of you reading this i would like you to comment with how you think of magic. Does magic have a good or evil connotation to you personally? I personally think of good when I think about magic. I think of the mighty Hero who uses magic to save the princess against evil.