angelology

[ eyn-juh-lol-uh-jee ]

noun

1. a doctrine or theory concerning angels.

angelology

/ ˌeɪndʒəˈlɒlədʒɪ /

noun

1. a doctrine or theory treating of angels

Word History and Origins

Origin of angelology¹

First recorded in 1745–55; angel + -o- + -logy

Example Sentences

The old angelology of the Book of Daniel and the Revelation is poetical and grand.

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Not so universally, but with a large number of readers, the angelology can be no more than what the critics call machinery.

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Contact with Babylonia tended to stimulate the 188 angelology and demonology of Israel.

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The transcendentalizing of Jewish theology after the Persian period had led inevitably to an elaborate angelology and demonology.

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