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Angelology and the Angelic Fall

The City of God, Volume I

When Rome burned, Augustine answered pagan accusations with a sweeping theology of two cities—divine and earthly—that reframed the meaning of history itself, locating the true City of God not in empire but in the fellowship of souls oriented toward eternal beatitude.

Augustine, of Hippo, Saint · 2014 · 192 min
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Separation of Light and Darkness

Applying this to Genesis, the separation of light from darkness signifies the division between the holy angels (light) and the fallen angels (darkness). Only God could make this discrimination, for He alone foresaw the fall. The approval of the light (“God saw that it was good”) is not immediately attached to the separation, lest it seem to approve the darkness.

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