A valuable new collection of texts, ranging from the sixth to the thirteenth centuries, and including a wide variety of genres -- saints' lives, as well as monastic, liturgical, exegetical, devotional, and theological texts. View More...
A gripping biography that brings together the most recent research to shed provocative new light on the life of Saint Patrick Saint Patrick was, by his own admission, a controversial figure. Convicted in a trial by his elders in Britain and hounded by rumors that he settled in Ireland for financial gain, the man who was to become Ireland's patron saint battled against great odds before succeeding as a missionary. Saint Patrick Retold draws on recent research to offer a fresh assessment of Patrick's travails and achievements. This is the first biography in nearly fifty years to explore Patrick'... View More...
Including works from Welsh, Irish and Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx, this Celtic Miscellany offers a rich blend of poetry and prose from the eighth to the nineteenth century, and provides a unique insight into the minds and literature of the Celtic people. It is a literature dominated by a deep sense of wonder, wild inventiveness and a profound sense of the uncanny, in which the natural world and the power of the individual spirit are celebrated with astonishing imaginative force. Skifully arranged by theme, from the hero-tales of C Chulainn, Bardic poetry and elegies, to the sens... View More...
The One and the Three explores parallels between Byzantine and early Irish monastic traditions, finding in both a markedly trinitarian theology founded on God's contemplation and ascetic experience. Chrysostom Koutloumousianos refutes modern theological theses that affect ecclesiology, and contrasts current schools of theological thought with patristic theology and anthropology, in order to approach the meaning and reality of unity and otherness within the Triadic Monad and the cosmos. He explores such topics as the connection between nature and person, the esoteric dimension of the Self, the ... View More...
With books -- many of dubious quality -- on ''Celtic spirituality'' flooding bookstore shelves, it is refreshing to find one like this, a ''return to the sources'' that clears away the cobwebs of recent new age mystification on the subject. This collection is a sort of miscellany of monastic rules, liturgical texts, and poetry that conveys a vivid sense of the unique Irish Christian practice of the sixth to the eighth centuries, blending severe asceticism with sweet hymns of love to the Holy Trinity. View More...
This book covers the period from 597 to 750, and does so with narrative skill and a refreshing emphasis on the first missionaries to (and in the case of St. Boniface, from) England and Ireland as men of prayer and cultural awareness and sensitivity, gifts which had much to do with the success of the Christianisation undertaken by them. No less than Peter Brown praises the book as being ''a model account, relevant to the wider evolution of European religion and culture in the formative centuries of the Western Middle Ages.'' Ample attention is paid to subjects such as prayer and worship, educat... View More...
While the place of the church and its organization in pre-Norman Ireland has been extensively studied, relatively little has been published on the eucharistic liturgy as celebrated in the pre-Norman church or as understood by its worshippers. The Eucharist in Pre-Norman Ireland fills an important gap in a field that has not been addressed in depth since F. E. Warren's Liturgy and Ritual of the Celtic Church (1881). Neil Xavier O'Donoghue provides a necessary, updated synthesis, one that incorporates advances made in liturgical studies and liturgical theology since the early twentieth century. ... View More...
What does it mean to be an Anglican? And Evangelical? Can these two identities be held together with integrity? Where the church seems to be fragmenting, how should we relate to the rest of the Anglican Church? Thirty years ago two influential Anglican thinkers, J.I. Packer and N.T. Wright, addressed these questions in short and provocative Latimer Studies. Their work remains stimulating and important, and is republished here for a new generation, with fresh prefaces from each author reflecting on recent developments. "The Evangelical Anglican Identity Problem" (Packer, 1978) addressed Angli... View More...
1981 edition, binding split in half, cracked in other places, all pages intact, monastery stamp & pocket, underling, a reading copy only. No jacket. View More...
Are you seeking simplicity, quiet, peace? The Celtic saints knew where to find it, and they will lead you on your pilgrimage. A Staff to the Pilgrim is a devotional treasure in which we meet nine Celtic saints who embody nine spiritual themes: simplicity (St. Ita), silence (St. Cuthbert), solitude (St. Melangell), a sense of place (St. Gwenfrewi), spirit (St. Hilda), supplication (St. Aidan), spiritual friendship (St. Brigid), a sense of mission (St. Brendan), and sanctity (St. David). Each chapter includes an introduction to the saint, heart-felt devotional essays that support each theme, the... View More...
This slim but substantial volume presents a host of clues concerning the misty beginnings of Celtic Christianity. Telepneff has surveyed the source literature relevant to monasticism, saints' lives, liturgy, art and architecture from the period and makes a strong case for the origins of Irish monasticism (and therefore English monasticism) in the bosom of the Egypt of the Desert Fathers via southern France. The author is not the first to have so argued, but he has buttressed his case with citation after citation, leaving the reader with a strong sense of the seamlessness of the development of ... View More...
There has been a revival of all things Celtic in recent decades, producing everything from Irish folk music to a rise in pagan mysticism. By contrast, Tracy Balzer's book, THIN PLACES: An Evangelical Journey into Celtic Christianity is written to introduce contemporary Christians to the great spiritual legacy of the early Celts, a legacy that has remained undiscovered or inaccessible for many in the evangelical tradition. Thin Places not only reveals the deeply scriptural, sacramental faith of the Celts, but also provides ways for us to learn from this ancient faith expression, applying fresh ... View More...
St Columbanus is widely regarded as the first of the great Irish Christian missionaries to Europe. Unlike his predecessor and (almost) namesake, Columba of Iona, Columbanus undertook exile for life as he set off to bring the particularly Irish form of monasticism to the continent. He was born in Leinster, perhaps somewhere about the year 550, and his adventurous life took him across southern Europe to die eventually in 615 in Bobbio in Northern Italy. He was dominating, austere, determined, occasionally gentle. His is the earliest voice of Christian Ireland, and this is his story. View More...
Hagiography and history at once, this collection of saints' lives tells the story of the transformation of Celtic Christianity and monasticism as it encountered Roman Christianity. Included are Bede's 'Life of Cuthbert' and 'Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth and Jarrow,' Eddius' 'Life of Wilfrid', and the famous 'Voyage of St. Brendan.' View More...
