By Susan R. Garrett
In this provocative, clever, and hugely unique addition to the Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library, Susan R. Garrett argues that angel speak hasn't ever been basically approximately angels. relatively, from precedent days till the current, speak about angels has served as a automobile for mirrored image on different primary lifestyles questions, together with the character of God’s presence and intervention on the earth, the lifestyles and that means of evil, and the destiny of people after demise. In No usual Angel, Garrett examines how biblical and different historical authors addressed such questions via their portrayals of angels. She compares the traditional angel check with renowned depictions of angels this present day and considers how the traditional and smooth pics of angels relate to Christian claims approximately Jesus.
No usual Angel bargains vital insights into the improvement of angelology, the origins of Christology, and well known Western spirituality starting from fundamentalist to New Age. In doing so, it provokes stimulating theological mirrored image on key existential questions.
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Do I really want to see the world as God sees it? Or myself as God sees me? I do not even like to watch myself on video! How much more frightening, then, to catch even a glimpse of myself through the lens of God’s camera—God, who “is able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart,” and before whom “no creature is hidden, but all are naked and laid bare” (Heb 4:12–13). It would be so much more comfortable to go on seeing things, self included, as I want to see them. Healing also can be painful.
35 In much of this angelic self-help literature, angels are beings who work as therapists, or “life coaches,” to remove hindrances, encourage self-actualization, and give us whatever it is that each of us needs to thrive. ) Authors of one selfhelp book write, “Whether we call upon them or not, the angels are with us in our everyday lives. They’re ready, willing, and delighted to help us. ” 36 But there is no communal dimension to the angels’ help in Ex- 30 No Ordinary Angel pecting Adam, or in most of the angelic self-help literature; focus is on the self-actualization of individuals.
So Balak, the king of Moab, takes action. 3 King Balak says to Balaam, “A people has come out of Egypt; they have spread over the face of the earth, and they have settled next to me. Come now, curse this people for me; since they are stronger than I; perhaps I shall be able to defeat them and drive them from the land; for I know that whomever you bless is blessed, and whomever you curse is cursed” (Num 22:5–6). Balaam sets out on his journey to fulfill the contract. But then the Lord’s anger is kindled against Balaam, and “the angel of the Lord took his stand in the road as his adversary [Heb.