Ángeles

In a 2016 survey, one in 10 Britons claimed to have experienced the presence of an angel, while one in three remain convinced they have a guardian angel. These are huge numbers and they mean that in some ways the angels are doing better than God. In the secular, skeptical, post-Christian world of the West, faith in angels is seen as both an anomaly and a consolation. What exactly are angels and why have they been believed in by so many in different times and contexts around the world? What is its history and its role in the great religions and beyond them? Are they something real, a manifestation of God or just metaphors used in religion? Can they provide a deeper truth about human existence and the cosmos? These are not new questions, humans have been asking them for millennia. Peter Stanford researches the history, theology, and cultural significance of angels.