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Martin Luther's (1483–1546) sermons of the angels merely recount the exploits of the fallen angels, and does not deal with an angelic hierarchy. They're a fascinating glimpse into what mere mortals fear most, and looking at just who fallen angels are and what they do tells just us just as much about ourselves as it does about them. Hussein Abdul-Raof Theological Approaches to Qur'anic Exegesis: A Practical Comparative-Contrastive Analysis Routledge 2012 ISBN 978-1-136-45991-7 p. Unlike most other apocalyptic writings, 1 Enoch reflects a growing dissatisfaction with the priestly establishments in Jerusalem in 3rd century BC.

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Augustine of Hippo's work Civitas Dei (5th century) became the major opinion of Western demonology and for the Catholic Church.The Torah and the Bible advise people to be careful when they're contacting angels on their own rather than waiting for God to bring angels into their lives according to his will. Unlike most earlier Christian representations of hell, it is not the primary place for God to torture the sinners, but the fallen angels' own kingdom. Sie geht vom Koran aus und beruft sich auf einzelne Verse, die dafür sprechen, wie zum Beispiel (66:6 und (21:20). During their fall, their "strength and stature became like the sons of man" and again, they give existence to the giants by intercourse with human women. a b David L Bradnick Evil, Spirits, and Possession: An Emergentist Theology of the Demonic Brill 2017 ISBN 978-90-04-35061-8 p.

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According to Quran 2:30, [113] the angels object to God's intention to create a human, because they will cause corruption and shed blood, [114] echoing the account of 1 Enoch and the Book of Jubilees. However, their ethereal bodies, as in the Christian conception of fallen angels, would allow them to ascend to heaven to obtain knowledge, thus passing secret information to soothsayers (a notion also corresponding with the Greek Daimon).

One of the earliest representations of the idea that there were angels and fallen angels opposing each other in an otherworldly battle is featured in a mosaic (above) in the Basilica of Sant' Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna, Italy. In terms of the history of fallen angel theology it is thought to be rooted in Enochian literature, which Christians began to reject by the third century. a b Andrei Orlov, Gabriele Boccaccini New Perspectives on 2 Enoch: No Longer Slavonic Only Brill 2012 ISBN 978-90-04-23014-9 pp. Howard Schwartz Tree of Souls: The Mythology of Judaism Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN 978-0-19-532713-7 p. The narration of the Grigori in 2 Enoch 18:1–7, who went down on to earth, married women and "befouled the earth with their deeds", resulting in their confinement under the earth, shows that the author of 2 Enoch knew about the stories in 1 Enoch.