Title: The angels and us /
Authors: Adler, Mortimer Jerome, 1902-2001.
Publisher: Collier Books ; Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; Maxwell Macmillan International,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Angels; Angels History of doctrines.
Contents: The fascination of Angels -- Minds without bodies -- Extraterrestial inteligenes -- The image of angels -- The significance of angels -- Significance from whom? -- Reality or possibility -- Theology of Philosophy -- Angels as objects of religious belief -- The dogma and the doctrines -- Why a bilief in angels? -- What the belief is -- From dogma to doctrines -- An angelic entertainment -- The reality of angels -- Why try to prove the existence of angels? -- The great chain of being -- The best of all possible worlds -- Theological speculation about angels -- The range and order of questions -- Themission of angels on earth -- A necessary digression -- The life of angels in heaven -- Hell's angels -- From Heaven to hell -- Satan in the service of God -- The mystery of original sin -- Angels as objects of philosophical thought -- The possibility of angels -- The crux of the matter -- Who says that angels are impossible? -- Reasons for affirming their possibility -- Philosophical exploration of that possiblitily -- Angeology and mathematics -- The mutability of angels -- The differentiation of angels -- Angelic occupation of space and movement through it -- Angels as knowers -- Angels as lovers -- The community and communication of angels -- Angelistic fallacies in modern thought -- How like an angel! -- And how unlike! -- The incarnation of the angel -- Shades of the prision house -- The immortality of the soul -- One or two? -- More like an angel -- The incarnation of the soul -- If men were angels -- Angelistic politics -- Angelistic psychology -- Angelistic linguistics -- Angelistic ethics -- Epilogue -- Man on the boundary line -- Straddling the line or reaching over it? -- The middle ground -- The resurection of the body -- What more to read about angels.