From Gabriel to Lucifer: A Cultural History of Angels
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| Rating | : | 4.50 (809 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1784534315 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-29 |
| Language | : | English |
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Four Stars W. Beavers excellent. Zagdoun said A very useful and moving book. i really enjoyed reading this very interesting book, so well written and so full of knowledge. I was looking for information on neoplatonists and I found so much more. The biblical references are moving, as well as useful. This is really a great book which I rate five stars. Thanks to the author for such a great book. Mary-Anne Zagdoun, Directrice de recherche émérite, CNRS, Paris
She thereby helps restore to a more prominent position this much-neglected feature of human experience."" – Christopher Rowland, Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, University of Oxford, UK and author of Blake and the Bible""Our fascination with angels and the angelic seems to go from strength to strength, and in her readable new book Valery Rees provides a lively and engaging account of why that is. In her fascinating book, From Gabriel to Lucifer, Valery Rees offers her readers a tantalising glimpse of the multi-faceted role angels have played in religion and history. ""Whether as mediators between the divine and human, or involved in the complex intertwi
But for others, angels are absolutely real creatures: manifestations of cosmic power with the capacity either to enlighten or annihilate those whose awestruck paths they cross. '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 sceptics, 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. Valery Rees 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 civilization. Whether exploring the fevered visions of Ezekiel and biblical cherubim; Persian geni
A prominent scholar of the Renaissance, Valery Rees is a Senior Member of the School of Economic Science in London. . She co-edited Marsilio Ficino: His Theology, His Philosophy, His Legacy (2002), and has featured as a regular panellist on BBC Radio 4’s flagship ideas programme, In Our Time