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Author: Sarah Bartlett Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1849018286 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 164
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Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renaissance, but also reveals their most intimate secrets. Whether through personal stories, literature, myth, religion or art, this book is the story of how belief in angels and demons has cast a powerful spell over the popular imagination.
Author: Sarah Bartlett Publisher: Hachette UK ISBN: 1849018286 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 164
Book Description
Throughout history, the human quest for knowledge of the divine, has ruffled the wings of many an angel, but also tested the wrath of the demon. This book not traces the history of angels and demons from their earliest roots to their modern day renaissance, but also reveals their most intimate secrets. Whether through personal stories, literature, myth, religion or art, this book is the story of how belief in angels and demons has cast a powerful spell over the popular imagination.
Author: James D. Quiggle Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781976413681 Category : Languages : en Pages : 162
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Humankind is not alone in the universe. Our companions are the immaterial spirit-beings we call angels. Angelology, A True History of Angels, discusses the history of the angelic community from their creation, the fall of some, their character and attributes, and the works and appearances of holy and fallen. Special attention is given to the controversial passages Genesis 6, Isaiah 14, and Ezekiel 28. Numerous traditional views of what angels are like in appearance, nature, purpose, and organizational structure are challenged by Scripture. Myths thought to be Biblical are exposed. Five appendices list every appearance and work of the holy and fallen angels.
Author: Valery Rees Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 0857732854 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 349
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Fiery the angels fell; slow thunder rolled around their shores, burning with the fires of Orc.' Whether in recent popular culture, or back across countless centuries, angels have perpetually enthralled, mystified and even terrified us. 'Every single angel is terrible,' wrote the German Romantic poet Rilke: 'and so I hold myself back from the dark bird-cry of my anguished sobbing.' For some in the sceptical, post-Enlightenment West, angels may be no more than metaphors: poetic devices to convey, at least for those with a religious sensibility, an active divine interest in creation. But for others, angels are absolutely real beings: manifestations of cosmic power and energy with the capacity either to enlighten or annihilate those whose awestruck paths they cross. Valery Rees here offers the first comprehensive history of these beautiful, enigmatic and sometimes dangerous beings, whose existence and actions have been charted across the eons of time and civilizations. From the ancient Sumerian and Akkadian winged figures, to Egyptian representations of Ma'at, Persian genii, Arab djinn, biblical cherubim, daemons of Hermes Trismegistus and Milton's defiant fallen angels, From Gabriel to Lucifer reveals a mesmerising trajectory of angelic belief. Whether exploring the feverish visions of Ezekiel and biblical cherubim; the Islamic archangels Jibra'il, Azra'il, Mika'il and Israfil; the austere and haunting icons of Andrei Rublev; or Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, and the more benign idea of the ever-watchful guardian angel, the author shows that the very ubiquity of these implacable celestial messengers reveal something fundamental, if not about God and the devil, then about ourselves: our perennial preoccupation withhow to depict the transcendent.
Author: Stephen Miller Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing ISBN: 1527535436 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 192
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Both collectively and individually we have a deep and abiding fascination with angels. This book explores depictions of angels in the visual arts and in scripture and associated apocryphal and mystical writings, specifically in the Hebrew and Christian Bibles and Islamic, Zoroastrian and other ancient and latter-day accounts. It examines the visual clues, artistic conventions and attributes that have been set down to help us to recognise angels in their particular roles and functions. Certain writings have had a particularly influential bearing on our understanding of angels. This text focuses on the hierarchies and orders proposed by the likes of Pseudo-Dionysius, St. Thomas Aquinas and others. In a new age of fascination with the metaphysical and supernatural (in film, television, popular mythology and literature), are we cementing or losing our connection with the authentic meaning and purpose that such vibrant and energised beings bring to our table? This book contains more than 30 illustrations in a central colour plates section. It also includes a useful glossary of terms and will prove a rich and enduring reference resource for libraries, as well as a stimulating go-to source for those interested in the world of angels and how human sensibilities and imaginative reasoning have enriched the subject, as a starting point for interreligious dialogue.
Author: Peter Stanford Publisher: ISBN: 9781473622098 Category : Angels Languages : en Pages : 0
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'An intriguing exploration of the many roles that angels have played in spiritual life.' - The Sunday Times: Nick Rennison 'In a 2016 poll, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel, while one in three remain convinced that they have a guardian angel. These are huge numbers and mean that, on some counts, angels are doing better than God.' In the secular, sceptical, post-Christian world of the West, continuing faith in angels is both anomaly and comfort. But what exactly are angels, and why have so many in different times and contexts around the globe believed in them? What is their history and role in the great faiths and beyond their walls? Are angels something real, a manifestation of divine concern? Or part of the poetry of religion? And can they continue to illuminate a deeper truth about human existence and the cosmos? These are not new questions. They have been asked over millennia, right up to the present day, as writer, journalist and broadcaster Peter Stanford explores in Angels, his latest investigation into the history, theology and cultural significance of religious ideas. 'There is no better navigator through the space in which art, culture and spirituality meet than Peter Stanford' Cole Moreton, Independent on Sunday
Author: Rodford Belcher Publisher: ISBN: 9780980394740 Category : Angels Languages : en Pages : 364
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A History of Angels as told by Archangel Gabriel is the first book of The Gabriel Trilogy by Northcote artist and sculptor Rodford Belcher. Published by Croxton House, A History of Angels is an incredible insight into the realm of Angels as told to the author by Archangel Gabriel. After ten years working in animation and graphics, Rodford grew disillusion and walked away from his career. He set off around Australia in an old truck and ended up living in a tent in Broome WA, where his desire to create art returned. He started to have the most beautiful dreams about colourful spirits that were trying to help him through a time of great personal confusion and pain. His art became a medium to communicate with his soul. "I could never go back to commercial art again after this epiphany," he says. "My art became my solace and vehicle for self discovery." Encouraged to write down the origins of his work and their spiritual connections, Rodford discovered a new creative way to access his soul, through writing. With the guidance of author Mary Ryllis Clark, Rodford was encouraged to write his thoughts into a manuscript, resulting in The Gabriel Trilogy manuscripts, a three year writing odyssey. Rodford's meeting with Archangel Gabriel changed his life and the way he viewed himself and the known universe. The conversation began with a simple question that resulted in a vision that lasted ten days detailing the modern history of angels, fallen and gods. A History of Angels is not just a classic tale of the esoteric but a fascinating story of one man's desire to better understand the world he lives in.
Author: Ellen Muehlberger Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199931933 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 294
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Ellen Muehlberger explores the diverse and inventive ideas Christians held about angels in late antiquity. During the fourth and fifth centuries, Christians began experimenting with new modes of piety, adapting longstanding forms of public authority to Christian leadership and advancing novel ways of cultivating body and mind to further the progress of individual Christians. Muehlberger argues that in practicing these new modes of piety, Christians developed new ways of thinking about angels. The book begins with a detailed examination of the two most popular discourses about angels that developed in late antiquity. In the first, developed by Christians cultivating certain kinds of ascetic practices, angels were one type of being among many in a shifting universe, and their primary purpose was to guard and to guide Christians. In the other, articulated by urban Christian leaders in contest with one another, angels were morally stable characters described in the emerging canon of Scripture, available to enable readers to render Scripture coherent with emerging theological positions. Muehlberger goes on to show how these two discourses did not remain isolated in separate spheres of cultivation and contestation, but influenced one another and the wider Christian culture. She offers in-depth analysis of popular biographies written in late antiquity, of the community standards of emerging monastic communities, and of the training programs developed to prepare Christians to participate in ritual, demonstrating that new ideas about angels shaped and directed the formation of the definitive institutions of late antiquity. Angels in Late Ancient Christianity is a meticulous and thorough study of early Christian ideas about angels, but it also offers a different perspective on late ancient Christian history, arguing that angels were central rather than peripheral to the emergence of Christian institutions and Christian culture in late antiquity.
Author: Kate Moorehead Publisher: Forward Movement Publications ISBN: 9780880284738 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 0
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Episcopal priest Kate Moorehead invites us into a more dynamic understanding of the realm of the angels. Her devotions recount fifty key appearances of angels in the Old and New Testaments as she shares stirring theological reflections on the presence of angels and our life of faith.
Author: Sophy Burnham Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101486473 Category : Body, Mind & Spirit Languages : en Pages : 386
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A BOOK OF ANGELS tells not only the extraordinary true stories of present-day encounters with angels, but also traces the understanding and study of angels through history and in different cultures. Discover what angels look like, whom they chose to visit, how they enter our lives, and so much more.
Author: Steven Pinker Publisher: Penguin Books ISBN: 0143122010 Category : Psychology Languages : en Pages : 834
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Faced with the ceaseless stream of news about war, crime, and terrorism, one could easily think this is the most violent age ever seen. Yet as bestselling author Pinker shows in this startling and engaging new work, just the opposite is true.
Author: Sarah Bartlett
Author: Sarah Bartlett
Author: James D. Quiggle
Author: Valery Rees
Author: Stephen Miller
Author: Peter Stanford
Author: Rodford Belcher
Author: Ellen Muehlberger
Author: Kate Moorehead
Author: Sophy Burnham
Author: Steven Pinker