Angelology

Unlike many Chesterton quotes, this one he actually said:

Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly.

G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (Chapter VII)

We’ll leave it to the reader to decide whether he intended the line as a humorous witticism, but it’s a good quote at any rate and a good segue to our next presentation for Theology Thursdays.

For the next ten Thursdays, we’ll be studying what the Bible teaches about angels. How many angels are mentioned in the Bible? Do angels have to “earn” their wings? Do they even have wings? Are they to be worshiped? What does the Bible actually say?

So, without further ado, here’s today’s introductory Slideshare presentation of angelology–literally, the study of angels: