Here are the books that have helped to sculpt my own views on the angels. If I had to recommend just one, that would depend on what kind of knowledge you’re looking for. Gustav Davidson provides a great descriptive overview with his Dictionary of Angels, but if you’re looking for something inspirational and, as it were, practical, then I would point you to H. C. Moolenburgh’s Handbook of Angels. And here’s a bonus fact: the wings portrayed on artistic representations of angels are swans’ wings! I just learned that from The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols.
The List
- The Angels and Us by Mortimer J. Adler
- A Dictionary of Angels, Including the Fallen Angels by Gustav Davidson
- Fallen Angels: Soldiers of Satan’s Realm by Bernard J. Bamberger
- A Handbook of Angels by H. C. Moolenburgh
- Summa Theologiae: Volume 9, Angels: 1a. 50-64 by Thomas Aquinas
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