God is not a god (nor is any angel)
The Creator God who was revealed to the Jews, and the Incarnate God revealed to Christians, is not a “god,” nor even the greatest and most powerful of the gods. We refer here instead to a Reality that is, quite simply, not in the class of “gods” to begin with. A related category mistake […]
THE OTHER WORLD WE LIVE IN (‘O outro mundo em que vivemos’ – agora disponível)
The Other World We Live In Angelico Press link Praise for The Other World We Live In “Where are the angels these days? No doubt, they mind their own business. And a great business it is: that of God’s ultimate plan for the created world. The real question is where are we in the cosmic […]
Angels and the City
According to Scripture, our first explicit encounter with the holy angels was after the expulsion from Paradise. At what should have been its welcoming gate, we found ourselves face-to-face with the Cherubim – their sharp, burning swords pointing our way. The message was clear: we were no longer welcome. Between us and Paradise these august […]
So Much We Don’t See
Before talking about angels, we should be reminded that a consideration of invisible realities need hardly be arcane, or the subject-matter as “supernatural” as one might suspect. Reflect, for a moment, on a few dimensions of the world we take to be quite real, but cannot pick up with our senses: 1) spatially: there is […]