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Not quite angels: why we should stop calling these small winged children ‘cherubs’

By Philip C. Almond, Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland

The image you hold in your head of a cherub is completely unlike the cherubs of the biblical and medieval traditions.

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