Celtic Spirituality
Overview
This volume offers translations of numerous texts from the Celtic tradition from the sixth through the thirteenth centuries, in a cross-section of genres and forms, including saints’ lives, monastic texts, poetry, devotional texts, liturgical texts, apocryphal writings, exegetical texts, and theological treatises. This curated collection of writings will challenge and deepen your faith while increasing your understanding of ancient Celtic Christianity.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- A regional presentation of Christian thought and writings limited to authors from the Celtic tradition
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Allows modern readers insight into the monastic and devotional expressions of Christianity
Top Highlights
“we are here in the presence of residual imperial rhetoric and its correspondingly (still) colonized minds” (Page xxi)
“Anthropologists have coined the terms emic and etic identities, by which is meant the identity a particular group holds with respect to itself and that which others place on it.” (Page 5)
“Celtic Christianity is no more innocent of distorted expression than is any other known version of Christianity.” (Page xviii)
“It is easy to see why many people, disillusioned with the narrow rationalism, demanding technologies, and urban environments of modern existence, should seek consolation in the intriguing image of an ancient and magical ‘other.’ Even though such approaches are not historically grounded, they do constitute an interesting phenomenon in themselves and are part of the history of Celticity.” (Pages 6–7)
“was a surviving sense of Christianity as a tribal religion that to” (Page 14)
About the Translator
Oliver Davies (born 10 January 1956) is a British Systematic Theologian who writes on medieval mysticism, early medieval Welsh and Irish spirituality, and contemporary Systematic Theology. Since 2004 he has held the chair of Christian Doctrine at King’s College London.