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Rees Valery - From Gabriel To Lucifer A Cultural History Of Angels - Paperback
Rees Valery - From Gabriel To Lucifer A Cultural History Of Angels - Paperback
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Description: 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. 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. 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 genii; Arab djinn; Islamic archangels; the austere and haunting icons of Andrei Rublev; or Wim Wenders Wings of Desire and the more benign idea of the watchful guardian angel the author shows that the ubiquity of these celestial messengers reveals something profound if not about God or the devil then about ourselves: our perennial preoccupation with the transcendent.
Title: From Gabriel To Lucifer A Cultural History Of Angels
Author(s): Rees Valery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784534318
Pages: 308 Pages, 21 In 16pp Colour Plates
Publication Date: 12/18/2015
Category: Christian Theology
Description: 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. 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. 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 genii; Arab djinn; Islamic archangels; the austere and haunting icons of Andrei Rublev; or Wim Wenders Wings of Desire and the more benign idea of the watchful guardian angel the author shows that the ubiquity of these celestial messengers reveals something profound if not about God or the devil then about ourselves: our perennial preoccupation with the transcendent.
Title: From Gabriel To Lucifer A Cultural History Of Angels
Author(s): Rees Valery
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9781784534318
Pages: 308 Pages, 21 In 16pp Colour Plates
Publication Date: 12/18/2015
Category: Christian Theology
