Fallen angel

=== Protestantism ===
[[File:John Martin 002.jpg|thumb|Fallen angels in Hell ({{Circa|1841}}), by [[John Martin (painter)|John Martin]]]]
[[File:Alexandre_Cabanel_-_Fallen_Angel.jpg|thumb|[[The Fallen Angel (painting)|''The Fallen Angel'']] (1847), by [[Alexandre Cabanel]], depicting [[Lucifer]]]]
Like Catholicism, Protestantism continues with the concept of fallen angels as spiritual entities unrelated to flesh,<ref name="ReferenceE" /> but it rejects the [[angelology]] established by Catholicism. [[Martin Luther]]'s (1483–1546) ''sermons of the angels'' merely recount the exploits of the fallen angels, and does not deal with an angelic hierarchy.<ref>Peter Marshall, Alexandra Walsham ''Angels in the Early Modern World'' Cambridge University Press 2006 {{ISBN|978-0-521-84332-4}} p. 74</ref> Satan and his fallen angels are responsible for some misfortune in the world, but Luther always believed that the power of the good angels exceeds those of the fallen ones.<ref>Peter Marshall, Alexandra Walsham ''Angels in the Early Modern World'' Cambridge University Press 2006 {{ISBN|978-0-521-84332-4}} p. 76</ref> The Italian Protestant theologian [[Girolamo Zanchi]] (1516{{en dash}}1590) offered further explanations for the reason behind the fall of the angels. According to Zanchi, the angels rebelled when the incarnation of Christ was revealed to them in incomplete form.<ref name="ReferenceE" /> While Mainline Protestants are much less concerned with the cause of angelic fall, arguing that it is neither useful nor necessary to know, other Protestant churches do have fallen angels as more of a focus.<ref name="ReferenceE" />