Angels and Monotheism

by Michael D. Hurley

Book Overview

While angels have played a decisive role in all the world's major religions and continue to loom large in the popular religious and creative imagination, modern theology has tended to ignore or trivialize them. The comparatively few scholarly works on angels over the last century have typically interpreted them as mere symbols and metaphors: they are said to offer glimpses not of the divine order, but of human desires, anxieties, and ideologies. Angelology...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009374621
• ISBN13: 9781009374620
• Release Date: December 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 75 Pages