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Celtic Christianity (Paperback)
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"Our God is the God of Heaven and Earth, of sea and river, of sun
and moon and stars, of the lofty mountain and lowly valley." -- St.
Patrick These words are perhaps the epitome of the Celtic monk's
holy embrace of nature and sense of "ecology." Everywhere in Celtic
Ireland, on rocky promontories and lonely hillsides, in hermitages
and monasteries, we find a holy intimacy of human, natural, and
divine. In this anthology, the stories of the Celtic saints are
interspersed with verses, prayers, and sayings attributed to those
ancient sages -- from Patrick and Brigit, through Brendan and
Columba, to Aidan and Cuthbert. It is uncertain when or how
Christianity first arrived at those westernmost reaches. It seems
always to have been there. Legend tells us that Irish bards
attended the events on Golgotha "in the spirit." In the Celtic
tradition there is a continuity in cosmic process. For the Celt,
Christ's death and resurrection was a healing that allows a
reconciliation between humanity and nature in God. In this sense,
Christianity was always in Ireland, and we seek its historical
beginning in vain. If the Celtic Church had survived, perhaps the
fissure between Christianity and nature, widening through the
centuries, would never have fragmented our Western attitude toward
nature and the universe.
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