Extraordinary Gathering of Angels

by Barker, Margaret

• ISBN13: 9781840726800
• ISBN10: 1840726806
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-10-01
• Publisher: Spruce

Summary

An Extraordinary Gathering of Angels is an exquisite visual and scholarlytudy of the complex and fascinating world of angels in the Judaic-Christianorld. Using over two hundred and fifty artworks, leading Biblical scholarnd practicing theologian, Margaret Barker takes the reader on anxtraordinary journey amongst the realm of angels. She explores angels as theeings of the invisible creation, their part in Christian worship, as a linketween real time and eternity and as they are perceived by all the humanenses. She reveals the cosmology of angels in all their guises - as thelory in God's creation, as the holy of holies in the Church temple, asinisters of the natural forces, as high priest, as the Holy Wisdom, as starshowing the heavenly pattern, as artistic muses and guardians.;Margaret drawsn an exciting and far ranging body of visual material with examples takenrom Coptic, Renaissance and Medieval manuscripts, church mosaics from aroundhe world, paintings from both the ecclesiastical and secular world, reliefnd free-standing sculpture from Gothic churches, domestic artefacts and

Author Biography

Author Margaret Barker, a Hebrew scholar and profilic writer on religious history, is an influential figure in her subject area and to date has published ten specialist books. She is famous for having developed a whole new approach to biblical studies, known as Temple Theology. She is a Methodist preacher and a former President of the Society for Old Testament Study.