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Angels A History

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ISBN-10: 0199582955

ISBN-13: 9780199582952

Edition: 2010

Authors: David Albert Jones

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What are angels? Where were they first encountered? Can we distinguish angels from gods, faeries, ghosts, and aliens? And why do they remain so popular? In this introduction to the history of angels, David Albert Jones outlines some of the more prominent stories and speculations about angels in Judaism, Islam, Christianity and post-Christian spiritualities. He reflects on the way angels are portrayed in art, whether as young men in the Hebrew Scriptures, androgynous winged creatures of the pre-Raphaelites, or the masculine statue of the Angel of the North. He also considers angels in films such as Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire, andFrank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, as well as angels in…    
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List price: $10.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 10/23/2019
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 224
Size: 6.69" wide x 4.72" long x 0.02" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

David Albert Jones is Director of the Anscombe Bioethics Centre, Oxford, and Visiting Professor of Bioethics at St Mary's University College, London, UK.

Preface
A brief history of angels
Picturing angels
What is an angel?
Divine messengers
Ministering spirits
Heavenly hosts
Fallen angels
Wrestling with angels
Further reading