Le mot '''ange''' signifie "messager" et ce mot exprime la nature du service angélique envers l'humanité. Les anges sont organisés en différents ordres, ou Chœurs angéliques. La plus inlfuente de ces classification est celle révélée par le saint Denys l'Aréopagite dans son livre ''La Hiérarchie Céleste''.
==Hiérarchie Céleste==
Dans cet oeuvre, cet auteur interprète plusieurs passages du [[Nouveau testament]], spécifiquement l'[[Épître aux Éphésiens]] 6:12 et l'[[Épître aux colossiens]] 1:16, pour construire le schéma des trois Hiérarchies, Sphères ou Triades d'anges, chaque Hiérarchie contenant trois Ordres ou Choeurs. dans l'ordre décroissant de puissance, ce sont :
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However==Ange Gardien==:"Gardez-vous de mépriser aucun de ces petits, one should be a bit cautious about taking pseudo-Dionysius' model too concretelycar, as he is the only source we have for such a classification system. The author himself was a fairly early advocate of [[apophatic theology]]je vous le dis, which insists on only describing God in the negativeaux cieux leurs anges voient toujours la face de mon Père céleste. Still, many have accused the writer of wavering somewhere in between Orthodoxy and Neoplatonism, a pagan Greek philosophical system; such critics say that the three groupings of three in the angelic hierarchy derive from [[Neoplatonism]]::''The Hellenic concept of the world as "order" and "hierarchy(Matthieu," the strict Platonic division between the "intelligible":''and "sensible" worldsXVIII, and the Neoplatonic grouping of beings into "triads" reappear in the famous writings of a:''mysterious early-sixth-century writer who wrote under the pseudonym of Dionysius the Areopagite.''{{ref|1}}10)
Furthermore, the comparison of the celestial with the earthly breaks down if one takes into account modern science, which tells us of a fourth category of matter and a very debatable number of dimensions (see [[w:String Theory]] if interested). All said and done, this is not to entirely discredit pseudo-Dionysius, who has been much esteemed by numerous [[Church Fathers]] and theologians up to the present day. ==SourcesBibliographie==
Orthodox Life, Vol. 27, No. 6 (Nov.-Dec., 1977), pp. 39-47.
*{{note|1}}From ''Byzantine Theology: Historical Trends and Doctrinal Themes'' by Fr. [[John Meyendorff]]. New York: Fordham University Press, 1974, p. 27. ISBN 0-8232-0967-9.
