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Oct 21, Ned Leffingwell rated it it was ok. This book is a collection of primary sources relating to the church during the Middle Ages.
The author has edited similar books focusing on people who fought and worked. This book was more bloody and had more political intrigue than the others. I would recommend this to people doing research, for pleasure reading look elsewhere. Scott rated it really liked it May 06, Susan Wallace rated it liked it Aug 18, The authors suggest we can learn from the Celts emphasis on physicality, that is a spirituality which includes both mind and body.
Secondly, we need to rediscover a spirituality which takes into account the natural world. Third, the church should also champion a spirituality which utilizes the creative imagination of persons and the creative arts. And a fourth feature, a spirituality which emphasizes the community. These features are quite a foil versus the backdrop of an individual kind of salvation which is exclusively mind and mine centered.
So to be clear.
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Here's one of the reasons Celtic Christianity has something to say to the contemporary Church: Just as they were eclectic in their art and their learning, the early Celts perceived themselves to be participants within a total environment in which the cosmos and the human, the natural and the divine, strive towards a visible unity'" Separating fact from fable when it comes to the Celtic Church's independence or submission to Catholicism has long been a British fascination.
Welsh, English and Scots reformers popularized their revisions as reversions to earlier, supposedly autonomous, manifestations of an insular church that did not bow the knee to Rome. They show in their introduction how the Celtic spiritual teachings differed-- and where they matched dominant Catholicism. They carefully, if briefly, remind readers too of the historical and social difficulties in defining a distinct Celtic identity.
This concept "based on a mythologized reading of the past" would not have been understood by the ancients, although as the editors also note, "it has its own exigencies, and should not be dismissed too lightly" for those who chose this interpretation in centuries nearer our own. Many of the medieval entries can be found, in expanded form, in Davies' "Celtic Spirituality" anthology published in by Paulist Press. These two collections by Davies may be confused not to mention a compendium by Davies from the medieval Welsh tradition!
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The difference lies in the edition's subtitle of "modern sources"-- adding oral traditions gathered in from Scots Gaelic as "Carmina Gadelica" by Alexander Carmichael and from Irish as "Religious Songs of Connacht" by Douglas Hyde. Then, contemporary poetry from Celtic writers this past century brings the collection closer to the present.
It's an accessible anthology addressed more than the Paulist Press successor to the common reader, and I recommend it as an entry point.
Bibliographies and sources used are both helpful, and I particularly value the translations of Welsh-language poet Euros Bowen. His "Changing Government" stands out. He ends "Tap Root": Today's poets do tend to favor the feminine and the natural, regardless of the author's male or female identification. Medieval entries, by contrast, feature the need for renunciation, repentance, and asceticism. His existential attitude might, however, unsettle many. A mismatch between the flesh and the spirit, and a longing to reconnect what's been sundered, enters many inclusions.
Brendan Kennelly's "Sculpted from Darkness" watches worshippers returning from midnight Mass over a bridge; "House" considers the fragile body and the aging dwelling elegantly juxtaposed. When the dark mind fails, faith lives in the supplication of hands, on prayer-wheel, rosary, stone. In their diction, capitalization, and imagery, there are eloquent comparisons to the Belle of Amherst. In a poem that could in theme if not in tone stand alongside R.
Thomas, Duval laments "The Song of the Foreigner," one that ravishes the trees, despoils the land, and erases the language. The Requiem of our Country. The editors have assembled, organized and introduced a rich collection of the prose and poetry of Christians from Brittany, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Although many of the works are translated from modern or ancient Breton, Irish, Welsh and Scottish Gaelic and from Latin, all flow with grace and feeling. The works from over a thousand years ago provide profound insights on the issues we face today and on how we can address our local problems through the love of all creation.
The modern works are intensely personal but all have the ability to touch readers far from the Celtic homelands. A wonderful introductin to Celtic, Christian or Celtic Christian literature and an excellent springboard for wider studies. Readers unfamiliar with the geography and history of the Celtic lands might wish to read with a map in hand and balance the anothological approach with the works of J. See all 3 reviews.