angelology
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of angelology
Example Sentences
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Here in Britain, the ebbing of religious faith has combined with our insatiable taste for kitsch to desensitise us to the historic potency of angelology.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 21, 2012
It is assumed that “teleology, transcendental frequencies, theories of morphistic angelology, taxonomy” and so on are flatteringly familiar to Ms. Trussoni’s well-versed readers.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010
It involves young angelology students who absorb lecture after lecture on pseudo-academic arcana.
From New York Times ● Mar. 1, 2010
They remain skeptical of the extravagance of angelology but don't know what to put in its place.
From Time Magazine Archive
Later Jewish and Christian speculation followed on the lines of the angelology of the earlier apocalypses; and angels play an important part in Gnostic systems and in the Jewish Midrashim and the Kabbala.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 by Various
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