Early Celtic ChristianityA&C Black, 2005 M01 8 - 256 páginas This lively and original account of early Celtic Christianity - which was of far greater importance in the development of Western culture than we commonly realize - is told against the background of European history of the first seven centuries A.D. It focuses on the lives of Saints Brendan, Columba, and Columbanus, who lived active and effective lives in the cause of the early Church. Brendan, one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Ireland, was known in legend as a voyager and was thought to have reached the Western Hemisphere long before the Vikings. Columba took Celtic Christianity to Scotland and helped to re-establish it in Wales and in the North and West of England. Columbanus was the great Irish missionary to continental Europe, where he and his followers helped to convert the heathen invaders from the East. When Rome, in the person of St. Augustine, Pope Gregory's apostle to the Angles, penetrated again to England, a showdown between Roman and Celtic Christianity was inevitable. The dramatic confrontation occurred at the Council of Whitby in 664. Rome, with its organization and authority, won, and Celtic Catholicism went into eclipse. But some of its influence persisted all over Europe, and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This book's fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples, the shaping of new countries, and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries. |
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... western state , where they were able to mature . The new paths made way for other imports , above all the language and thought of Rome , shorn of its imperial flavour . There was never a political tie between Ireland and Rome . But from ...
... western state , where they were able to mature . The new paths made way for other imports , above all the language and thought of Rome , shorn of its imperial flavour . There was never a political tie between Ireland and Rome . But from ...
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... western Europe marked with the heavy stamp of Roman system . One of the Empire's great legacies to Europe was , as a result , a hybrid culture comprising the inspiration of the Greeks and the method of the Romans . Another paired the ...
... western Europe marked with the heavy stamp of Roman system . One of the Empire's great legacies to Europe was , as a result , a hybrid culture comprising the inspiration of the Greeks and the method of the Romans . Another paired the ...
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... western death . Christianity was unlike these . Even in the East it was peculiar , based on the trad- ition of a race which had kept itself surprisingly secluded from the hotbed of peoples and ideas around it . In the words of Jesus ...
... western death . Christianity was unlike these . Even in the East it was peculiar , based on the trad- ition of a race which had kept itself surprisingly secluded from the hotbed of peoples and ideas around it . In the words of Jesus ...
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... western world . As the threats to that world grew , the need for conformity grew . God and Caesar were never quite incompat- ible . Even while the Visigoths were drinking victors ' draughts after their sack of Rome in 410 , Augustine ...
... western world . As the threats to that world grew , the need for conformity grew . God and Caesar were never quite incompat- ible . Even while the Visigoths were drinking victors ' draughts after their sack of Rome in 410 , Augustine ...
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... western pilgrims returning from the Holy Places . Athanasius , born in Alexandria and forced from it in the middle fourth century by one of the politico - religious shifts that made partisan life precarious , brought to Rome the ideas ...
... western pilgrims returning from the Holy Places . Athanasius , born in Alexandria and forced from it in the middle fourth century by one of the politico - religious shifts that made partisan life precarious , brought to Rome the ideas ...
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Pagan Ireland | 28 |
The Awakening of Ireland | 51 |
The Sailor Saint | 74 |
The OrganisationAbbot | 100 |
Iona and Lindisfarne | 121 |
France | 147 |
The Path to Rome | 171 |
Trial | 189 |
After the Verdict | 210 |
Chronological Table | 221 |
References | 225 |
Select Bibliography | 229 |
Index | 233 |
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