While Judaism has no fixed ordering of classes of angels, Christianity has a specific hierarchy. Codified in its classic form in the 5th cent by St. Dionysius the Areopagite , in The Celestial Hierarchy. Protestants have generally abandoned the cult of angels. They are often viewed as the initiators of evil temptations. Famous literary treatments of angels are those of John Milton's Paradise Lost and Dante's Divine Comedy.
Angels play an important role in many other religions.
Zoroastrian notions of angels influenced the intricate theories of heavenly beings of Gnostic systems and Manichaeism. The Kiram al-Katibin are the recording angels. According to a popular tradition, each person has two scribe angels, the one on the right side recording good deeds, the one on the left taking note of transgressions. A lower order of angels is the jinn. Licensed from Columbia University Press.