Find the word definition

The Collaborative International Dictionary
Angelology

Angelology \An`gel*ol"o*gy\, n. [L. angelus, Gr. ? + -logy.] A discourse on angels, or a body of doctrines in regard to angels.

The same mythology commanded the general consent; the same angelology, demonology.
--Milman.

Wiktionary
angelology

n. The study of angels. Angels have been grouped into http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian%20angelic%20hierarchy, from lowest to highest: angel, virtue, archangel, power, principality, dominion, throne, cherub, and seraph.

WordNet
angelology

n. the branch of theology that is concerned with angels

Wikipedia
Angelology (novel)

Angelology is a first novel by Danielle Trussoni. It was published by Viking Press in March 2010.

Usage examples of "angelology".

It seems likely that messianism formed the principal medium through which angelology impinged on nascent Christology, and that Christ, precisely as messiah, was envisaged as an angel-like spiritual being.

Also, besides the manuscripts, I have letters that offer revelations on the connections between Joan of Arc and the Sibylline Books, between Lilith the Talmudic demon and the hermaphroditic Great Mother, between the genetic code and the Martian alphabet, between the secret intelligence of plants, cosmology, psychoanalysis, and Marx and Nietzsche in the perspective of a new angelology, between the Golden Number and the Grand Canyon, Kant and occultism, the Eleusian mysteries and jazz, Cagliostro and atomic energy, homosexuality and gno-sis, the golem and the class struggle.