In Christianity, angels are the messengers of God. In chapter V of Ignatius of Antioch's Letter to the Trallians, the bishop gives a listing of angels...
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Fallen angels are angels who were expelled from Heaven. The literal term "fallen angel" does not appear in any Abrahamic religious texts, but is used...
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art Fallen angel Guardian angel Gustav Davidson – author of A Dictionary of Angels Heavenly host Hierarchy of angels Ishim List of angels in fiction List...
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angels as benevolent celestial intermediaries between God and humanity. Other roles include protectors and guides for humans, such as guardian angels...
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In the angelology of different religions, a hierarchy of angels is a ranking system of angels. The higher ranking angels have greater power and authority...
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of the 'Second Sphere' Angels) in Western Christian angelology. Its name is derived from the Greek myrrh. Muriel is the angel of the month of June, is...
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Seven Archangels (category Septets in religion)
Archangels is found in some works of early Jewish literature and in Christianity. In those texts, they are referenced as the angels who serve God directly...
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idea of angels that guard over people played a major role in Ancient Judaism. In Christianity, the hierarchy of angels was extensively developed in the 5th...
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In Judaism, angels (Hebrew: מַלְאָךְ, romanized: mal’āḵ, lit. 'messenger', plural: מַלְאָכִים mal’āḵīm) are supernatural beings that appear throughout...
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Archangel (redirect from Arch-angel)
(malakhey Elohim; Angels of God), The Hebrew word for angel is "malakh", which means messenger, for the angels מלאכי יי (malakhey Adonai; Angels of the Lord)...
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(Angels and Angelology in the Middle Ages [New York: Oxford University Press, 1998], 35) notes that in the early church, identification of the Angel of...
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Angel Moroni is patterned after Quilter's 1998 design. Quilter's Angel Moroni is now on over one hundred temples around the world. List of angels in theology...
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000 Assyrian soldiers. In the Book of Enoch, angels of punishment and destruction belong to a group of angels called satans with Satan as their leader. First...
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angels. Angels in a Haggadah from 1740. Angels on a Ketubah from 1746. Angels on a Ketubah from 1754. Angels on a Ketubah from 1781. Possible angel with...
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Grigori. In City of Angels, Nicolas Cage plays a watcher angel who falls in love with a human woman, Meg Ryan. Fallen angel Igigi List of angels in theology...
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Wormwood (Bible) (redirect from Wormwood (angel))
recalling the biblical prophecy. List of angels in theology Lewis, James R., Oliver, Evelyn Dorothy (1996), Angels A to Z, entry: "Wormwood", p. 417, Visible...
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Guiley, Rosemary Ellen (1996). Encyclopedia of Angels. ISBN 0-8160-2988-1, p.37 Bunson, Matthew. Angels A to Z. New York: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996...
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This is a list of films where angels appear: The Christmas Angel (1904) Gabriel Over the White House (1933) Liliom (1934) The Passing of the Third Floor...
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Encyclopedia of Angels. New York, New York: Facts on File, Incorporated. Davidson, Gustav. (1967). A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels. p. 97....
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The worship of angels (or angelolatry) primarily relates to either excessive honouring (or possibly invoking the names of) angels. The Greek word angelos...
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York: Doubleday. Davidson, Gustav (1967). A Dictionary of Angels: Including the Fallen Angels. New York: Free Press. Gettings, Fred (1988). Dictionary...
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Cherub (category Angels in Christianity)
God, in contrast to the messenger angels. They include the Bearers of the Throne, the angels around the throne, and the archangels. The angels of mercy...
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Greek: Ἀριήλ, romanized: Ariel) is an angel found primarily in Judaism and Christianity The word Ariel appears in the Hebrew Bible and on the Mesha Stele...
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Ophanim (category Angels in Christianity)
Catholic. "The Nine Choirs of Angels - Angels - Saints & Angels". Catholic Online. "What are the categories of Angels (archangels, thrones, dominions...
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Living creatures (Bible) (category Angels in Christianity)
ISBN 9781931018265. Davidson, Gustav (1967). A Dictionary of Angels, Including The Fallen Angels. New York: Free Press. De Conick, April D. (2006). Paradise...
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believe that angels cannot sin because sin brings death and angels cannot die. Supporting the idea that an angel may sin, Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae...
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Nephilim (category Angels in Christianity)
fallen angels, and in particular with the egrḗgoroi (watchers). Samyaza, an angel of high rank, is described as leading a rebel sect of angels in a descent...
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Valar (redirect from Providence in Middle-earth)
resemble angels in Christianity but that Tolkien presented them rather more like pagan gods. Their role in providing what the characters in Middle-earth...
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The "three angels' messages" is an interpretation of the messages given by three angels in Revelation 14:6–12. The Seventh-day Adventist church teaches...
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the principal source for the Islamic concept of angels, but more extensive features of angels appear in hadith literature, Mi'raj literature, Islamic exegesis...
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