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Using over two hundred and fifty artworks, leading Biblical scholar and practicing theologian, Margaret Barker takes the reader on an extraordinary journey amongst the realm of angels. She explores angels as the beings of the invisible creation, their part in Christian worship, as a link between real time and eternity and as they are perceived by all the human senses. She reveals the cosmology of angels in all their guises - as the glory in God's creation, as the holy of holies in the Church temple, as ministers of the natural forces, as high priest, as the Holy Wisdom, as stars showing the heavenly pattern, as artistic muses and guardians.

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"Since her undergraduate days in Cambridge, Margaret Barker has been interested in the temple in Jerusalem, and has to date published ten specialist books in this area. Her most recent title had the lead review in the Christmas edition of the Times Literary Supplement, 2003, which described it as ""a remarkable, wide-ranging, exciting and controversial book"". She is a Methodist preacher and a former President of the Society for Old Testament Study."

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