Angelology - what is that?

For those of you who are wondering what Dylan is up to (besides packing and preparing sermons etc.), he has actually started his paper for Prof. Brown. Here's a sample of his writing (I am just sharing this with y'all to get some sympathy for me...ha ha) --

"Scripturally speaking, angelic activity suggests that these higher-order beings are not only related to our sphere of existence, but they are worthy of imitation and appreciation because their mere existence points to the generosity of God. This notion is at the heart of the inscrutable Doxological mystery of what it means to sing, “Praise Him above ye heavenly host!” For centuries, Christians around the planet have gathered every Sunday in hopes that their pecuniary response to the liberality of God will somehow resonate with the angels as well and that an antiphonal angelic chorus would in turn encourage us to a higher order of being. Like a yearning for camaraderie between distant cousins living on different continents, we lift our voices week after week secretly hoping that an echo from heaven, an enabling word, will hit our ears prior to the end of the service. The human yearning to experience a higher world while in this world is further fueled by the belief in higher order beings located somewhere between the two. Eradicate that prospect and we are back to living as cogs in a cosmic machine whose dual function appears to revolve around the preservation of the state and the amassing of wealth. To think of angels, however, is to do something quite revolutionary and refreshingly countercultural, because it permits the individual to live somewhere between the spheres of heaven and earth; transcendent power and human frailty, steadfastness and inconsistency, orthodoxy and orthopraxy, power and weakness, past, present and future. To contemplate the angelic is an inspiration to seek a higher order of experience while living on earth."