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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... gave Greece a Roman stamp . Cicero and Virgil were somewhat plastery casts of Plato and Homer . The Roman talent was for empire and law — sword and con- scripted pen . With these they fashioned Europe's future . Both the patrons of the ...
... gave Greece a Roman stamp . Cicero and Virgil were somewhat plastery casts of Plato and Homer . The Roman talent was for empire and law — sword and con- scripted pen . With these they fashioned Europe's future . Both the patrons of the ...
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... gave rise to the Greek word barbarian . Yet even from Roman accounts the impression emerges of a people with formalised manners , a rigid hierarchy , complicated religion , and an interest in music and poetry . Till the Romans fought ...
... gave rise to the Greek word barbarian . Yet even from Roman accounts the impression emerges of a people with formalised manners , a rigid hierarchy , complicated religion , and an interest in music and poetry . Till the Romans fought ...
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... gave greater contentment , and at the same time opportunity for practising Christian virtues towards others . Where the first move- ment had inspired mainly admiration , the second brought recruits in thousands . Five thousand settled ...
... gave greater contentment , and at the same time opportunity for practising Christian virtues towards others . Where the first move- ment had inspired mainly admiration , the second brought recruits in thousands . Five thousand settled ...
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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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