.... The central virtue of this assimilation to Christ is faithfulness. Whereas the angelic beings and Gentile gods that God appointed to govern the cosmos have not been faithful, Christ was perfectly faithful. God thus gave him his own pneuma to guarantee such obedience. Paul’s goal was to find chosen Gentiles...

...This chapter compares the work of Wishman and Wakamatsu Koji, examining Wishman’s Double Agent 73/Deadly Weapon (1973, 1974) in conjunction with Wakamatsu’s contemporary works Season of Terror (1969) and Ecstasy of Angels (1972) and tracing how...

...) and the open admission that sexuality is tough to portray onscreen while flirting with the screen version of Tony Kushner’s play Angels in America. At best, one could characterize Altman’s attitude toward LGBTQ+ sexuality on film as conservative. This assessment, though, does not account...

... in the 1950s. Indeed, as early as June 1951, production had started on what was to become Angels One Five. Battle of Britain day Gossage John Adam Ronald Air Ministry Angels One Five 1952 film Clark Robert The First of the Few 1942 film Holt Paul Kenley Lestocq Humphrey O’Ferrall...

... the shared set of rites performed in them. Recurrent themes - such as references to the benevolent presence of angels, events of sacred history, the apparition of holy men, the remittance of sins, God's excessive mercy and baraka - are noted here. The chapter also summarizes the opinions...

... by moving beyond the widespread feelings of psychic unease Singer identifies to address some of the more specific pathologies that arose from theincreased mechanisation of war during the early twentieth-century. This chapter culminates in an explication of The Tarnished Angels that has been...

... and compares the representation of women in their writings, showing how they explored women’s place, engaged with contentious early feminist debates, and supported or promoted women’s liberation in both their literary and visual works. De Morgan Evelyn De Morgan William Frend angels relationships...

... such as The Lion Has Wings and First of the Few helped develop a basic narrative of events in which The Few vanquish the many with the Spitfire. In the following decade, elements were added to this basic David-and-Goliath story in Angels One Five and Reach...

... and The Tarnished Angels, and argues that the subversive force of the female performer in these Sirkian melodramas does not primarily rest upon notions of individual agency. Rather, the most notable subversive effects of these films lie in the capacity of certain heightened affective-performative moments...

... and causality between the two. Proposing the angelic as a means of encompassing both desire and pleasure, and both immanence and politics, Blake works to situate actual sex within a philosophy which is reluctant to allow for the orgasmic within its desiring web of connections. References Ansell-Pearson...