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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... Ireland too rose to European importance . Before , she had looked inwards and tired herself with bickering while the world went by . Afterwards , her story was of wrestling with the ambition of England , and a few happy I Introduction.
... Ireland too rose to European importance . Before , she had looked inwards and tired herself with bickering while the world went by . Afterwards , her story was of wrestling with the ambition of England , and a few happy I Introduction.
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... importance ) , jurists , artists , historians and skilful craftsmen . Their position was not inherited , though there was a growing tendency for it to be confined to certain families . The class of freemen came next , sometimes owning ...
... importance ) , jurists , artists , historians and skilful craftsmen . Their position was not inherited , though there was a growing tendency for it to be confined to certain families . The class of freemen came next , sometimes owning ...
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... important , did not seem so decisively important as it did to the West ; rather it was a place to which the cultural axis swung for a while only to return , fight again for its existence , and perpetuate itself in many minor and two ...
... important , did not seem so decisively important as it did to the West ; rather it was a place to which the cultural axis swung for a while only to return , fight again for its existence , and perpetuate itself in many minor and two ...
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... important point , though , was that the problems were expressible in words , and not only in strange symbols and occult ritual . When the minds of the West took Christianity to themselves they found logic and system to satisfy their ...
... important point , though , was that the problems were expressible in words , and not only in strange symbols and occult ritual . When the minds of the West took Christianity to themselves they found logic and system to satisfy their ...
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... importance , and naturally took on the dimen- sions of political issues , to which they were often linked . Rome , once ... important condition was that things that were accepted should be adapted to the system . And as time went on this ...
... importance , and naturally took on the dimen- sions of political issues , to which they were often linked . Rome , once ... important condition was that things that were accepted should be adapted to the system . And as time went on this ...
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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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