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- Title
Invisible Helpers: Angelic Intervention in Post-Reformation England.
- Authors
Walsham, Alexandra
- Abstract
The article discusses Protestant theological debates in early modern England about the role of angels in God's relations with human beings, in particular how they interceded in human affairs and whether they ever made themselves visible. The ambivalence of English Reformation theologians regarding these issues, amid efforts to suppress what they regarded as Catholic superstitions and idolatry, is discussed, with reference to angles in the Bible, historical accounts of angelic apparitions, and developments in scientific and philosophical understandings of optical phenomena.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; ANGELS in Christianity; ENGLISH Reformation; SUPERNATURAL theology; MEDIATION between God &; man; SUPERSTITION -- Religious aspects; SPIRITS (Christianity); VISIONS
- Publication
Past & Present, 2010, Vol 208, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
0031-2746
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/pastj/gtq002