Abstract
The first discourse arises out of the urgent pursuit of holiness, an enterprise in which angels serve Christians as guards and guides. In Chapter Six, Muehlberger invokes Benedict Anderson's famous notion of communities to appreciate how a Christian minority might appeal to an angelic liturgy in which they are somehow participating, and thereby imagine themselves to be, not an insignificant and beleaguered sect, but instead part of a universal, heavenly majority. Whereas Cyril of Jerusalem and Theodore of Mopsuestia imagined Christian liturgy as an imitation of an angelic liturgy performed in heaven, John Chrysostom turned this on its head, and instead imagined angels descending to witness Christian rituals on earth.
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