Angels Everywhere: A Spate of Recent Books

It's exciting to see a long-neglected topic suddenly receive so much attention

Apart from some of the strange ideas on angels one can read in New Age literature and the cutesy views found on bumperstickers or in greeting cards, it must be admitted that for a long time, the subject of angels has received little to no proper attention in the modern West. Surely the materialism and humanism of our times go a long way toward explainin…