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Celestial Hierarchy

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Celestial Hierarchy

By: Pseudo Dionysius
Narrated by: Melody Colina
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Celestial Hierarchy is a Pseudo-Dionysian work studying angels. It was written in Greek and some would place its composition in the fifth century. It had a great influence on the understanding of the hierarchies of angels.

Thomas Aquinas would use the work in his own writings, dividing the angels into three hierarchies, each of which contains three orders, based on how close they are to God:

  1. Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones
  2. Dominations, Virtues, and Powers
  3. Principalities, Archangels, and Angels
Public Domain (P)2020 Patristic Publishing Angeology & Demonology Christianity Ministry & Evangelism Theology
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Narrated by a machine, I assume. Or a person who sounds JUST like one .Not a real audible book.

Not a real narrator

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The translation is acceptable and narrator has beautiful voice, although she pronounces his name Dionysus which is incorrect, author's name is Dionysius...the iota is important.

Overall good

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The work itself is a significant ancient insight to the beliefs concerning the spirit world. However, this is relatively dense material so having such a mechanical voice with its often incorrect emphases and unnatural renderings makes it less intelligible. If having machine-generated recordings can give us audiobooks of titles we would not have otherwise that is a potential positive BUT they have to get better than this, should be significantly cheaper and indicated as not read by a real human narrator.

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