Early Celtic ChristianityA&C Black, 8.01.2005 г. - 256 страници 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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... religions and cultures appeared again . Science , and senses of humour , were revived . The Roman spectre at last was shrinking . Even before the Renaissance , however , the continuity had not been complete . Between Roman dominion and ...
... religions and cultures appeared again . Science , and senses of humour , were revived . The Roman spectre at last was shrinking . Even before the Renaissance , however , the continuity had not been complete . Between Roman dominion and ...
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... religion , and an interest in music and poetry . Till the Romans fought them back , and finally conquered them , they controlled the inner bulk of Europe ; and at their European height — perhaps three or four centuries before Christ ...
... religion , and an interest in music and poetry . Till the Romans fought them back , and finally conquered them , they controlled the inner bulk of Europe ; and at their European height — perhaps three or four centuries before Christ ...
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... religion can never be known . It is plausible , at least , to claim that they existed . Trade was carried on between the south and eastern kingdoms of Ireland and Britain , Gaul and Spain . But the Irish Celts , the Gaels , in general ...
... religion can never be known . It is plausible , at least , to claim that they existed . Trade was carried on between the south and eastern kingdoms of Ireland and Britain , Gaul and Spain . But the Irish Celts , the Gaels , in general ...
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... Roman system with the new religion of Christianity . In the process , naturally , both Greek and Christian philosophies were somewhat diluted . All the same their Roman foundation ensured them a more permanent strength II.
... Roman system with the new religion of Christianity . In the process , naturally , both Greek and Christian philosophies were somewhat diluted . All the same their Roman foundation ensured them a more permanent strength II.
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... religion of Rome and Constantinople . But if the bishops of Constantinople were tied to politics , those of Rome were confined by the heritage of an organised framework through- out the western world . As the threats to that world grew ...
... religion of Rome and Constantinople . But if the bishops of Constantinople were tied to politics , those of Rome were confined by the heritage of an organised framework through- out the western world . As the threats to that world grew ...
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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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