ANGELISM

In the current phase of the New Middle Ages, theomorphism has acquired certain features of angelism. The figure of the angel is a key image in postmodern spirituality. The angel represents the purest form of God-presence in the absence of God himself. The angel is a peculiar form of the Divine, alienated from both God and Man, roaming in a mysterious expanse between sky and earth. Although it appeared that angels had left our world in the Renaissance, remaining only as a rhetorical figure in poetry and serving as a shibboleth for mystics, they have returned in the Postmodern age. [Post-modern angels. -- G.]Mikhail Epstein Post-Atheism: from Apophatic Theology to "Minimal Religion" In the book: Russian Postmodernism: New Perspectives on Post-Soviet Culture (with Alexander Genis and Slobodanka Vladiv-Glover, in the series Studies in Slavic Literature, Culture, and Society, vol. 3). New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 1999, 528 pp.345-393.In theology, angelism is a pejorative for arguments that human beings are essentially angelic, and therefore sin-less in actual nature."Dictionary : ANGELISM". Catholicculture.org. 2014-12-08. Retrieved 2015-03-29. Via En Wikipedia. "A theory of human existence that minimizes concupiscence and therefore ignores the need for moral vigilance and prayer to cope with the consequences of original sin. In general, the tendency to regard human affairs with casual optimism, as though human beings were angels without bodily needs and without proneness to sin."Catholic Dictionary. catholicculture.org.
== AQ ==
AQ-152= ANGELISM = APHELION = BAPHOMET = BATHORY = BLUE LINE = BUDDHISM = EGREGORE = GAMEPLAY = OPUS DEI = SEX AURA = TYPHON
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Angel; God; Demonism
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