On February 15, 1995 he began the final phase of research for the doctorate on'Melchisedek e l'angelologia nell'Epistola agli Ebrei e a Qumran'('Melchisedek and Angelology in the Epistle to the Hebrews and at Qumran'), under the direction of Fr Albert Vanhoye ( moderator ) and Fr Joseph Sievers ( relator ).
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Trussoni s first novel, " Angelology ", ( Viking Press, 2010 ) was a literary historical thriller described as a brilliant tapestry of myth and biblical lore on our present-day world and plunged two star-crossed heroes into an ancient battle against mankind s greatest enemy : the fatally attractive angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim .
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Call it the angel look, part of a premillennial preoccupation with angels and apparitions that started a few years back with a flood of books on " angelology, " that then worked its way into movies like last year's " Wings of the Dove " and that has now reached the nitty-gritty business of moisturizing creams and lip gloss.
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In " An exposition with notes vpon the first Epistle to the Thessalonians " ( 1619 ), Sclater claimed that scholastic philosophers occupied themselves with such pointless questions as whether angels " did occupie a place; and so, whether many might be in one place at one time; and how many might sit on a Needles point; and six hundred such like needlesse points . " Harrison proposes that the reason an English writer first introduced the " needle s point " into a critique of medieval angelology is that it makes for a clever pun on " needless point ".
