But he has added to them in several important particulars, which make his Visions an intermediate stage between the Book of Ezekiel and the very intricate angelology of later Judaism.
The force of these developments of Apocalypse, Angelology and the Ritual appears both in Ezekiel and in the exilic codification of the ritual which forms so large a part of the Pentateuch.
The transcendentalizing of Jewish theology after the Persian period had led inevitably to an elaborate angelology and demonology.
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.
If this view is true, then it is evident that they must have rejected its angelology and demonology, for that contained in the New Testament is utterly dissimilar in character to that which we read in the book of Enoch.
This book, which is an Apocalypse, contains a monstrous angelology and demonology, and abounds with extravagances.
For theangelology and angelolatry of these Colossian false teachers, more especially in its connexion with Essene teaching, see the introduction, pp.
It seems not improbable that the communication of similar mystical secrets, perhaps connected with their angelology (ii.
For the prominence which was given to angelology in the speculations of the Jews generally, see the Preaching of Peter quoted in Clem.
The angelology of the heretics had a twofold bearing; it was intimately connected at once with cosmogony and with religion.
Of the Colossian heretics we can only form a conjecture, but the angelology and angelolatry attributed to them point to a further step in the same direction.
It takes no account of the cosmogony and angelology of the false teachers against which the Apostle’s exposition here is directed (see above, pp.
Thus his theory is linked on to the angelology of later Judaism founded on the angelic appearances recorded in the Old Testament narrative.
In this way the entire angelology of the Bible, including even Ezekiel's vision of the heavenly chariot (the Merkabah), in becoming a part of the Maimonidean system turns into natural philosophy pure and simple.
Angelology found a conspicuous place in the liturgy in connection with the Kedushah Benediction and likewise in the liturgy and the theology of the Church.
The Jewish systems of both angelology and demonology, first worked out in the apocalyptic literature, were further elaborated by the Cabbalah.
We see as an historic fact that the familiarity of the Jews with Persian angelology and demonology seems to have developed their views on the subject.
These remarkable features of angelology only occur in the later epoch, and in the apocalyptic literature to which this Book belongs.
Jewish angelology Gabriel is identified with the Holy Spirit (Ruach Haqqodesh).
Here astronomy, meteorology, and geography are thus grouped together, and angelology is put into relation with astronomy and demonology with meteorology.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "angelology" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
