Although most of the Catholic Church councils remained remarkably silent on the subject of Satan, in 1215 C.E., the Fourth Lateran Council presented what the New Catholic Encyclopedia terms a “solemn profession of faith. ” Canon 1 states: “The devil and the other demons were created good by nature, by God, but of their own doing they became evil. ”
यु. १२ व्या शतकापर्यंत अन्सेल्म आणि अबीलार्ड हे कॅथलिक तत्त्ववेत्ते या निष्कर्षापर्यंत पोचले की, ख्रिस्ताचे बलिदान सैतानाला नव्हे तर देवाला अर्पण करण्यात आले होते.