Celts and Christians - New Approaches to the Religious Traditions of Britain and Ireland

Informationen zum Autor Mark Atherton is Research Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Culture! Regent's Park College! Oxford. He has published widely in the field of Anglo-Saxon literature and is the editor of Hildegaard of Bingen: Selected Writings. Klappentext This volume aims to take a fresh look at the saints, scholars, nature poets and religious thinkers who shaped the early forms of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. It discusses Celtic ethnicity, location and national identities and goes on to consider texts from a theological viewpoint. Zusammenfassung This volume aims to take a fresh look at the saints! scholars! nature poets and religious thinkers who shaped the early forms of Christianity in Britain and Ireland. It discusses Celtic ethnicity! location and national identities and goes on to consider texts from a theological viewpoint. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction MARK ATHERTON Part I Identities 1 Celtic Christianity: texts and representations OLIVER DAVIES 2 The Idea of the Celt JONATHAN WOODING 3 The 'pagan' and 'Christian' identities of the Irish female saint ELVA JOHNSTON 4 Saxon or Celt? Caedmon! The Seafarer! and the Irish tradition MARK ATHERTON Part II Theologies 5 'There is no resurrection where there is no earth.' Creation and resurrection as seen in early Welsh poetry A. M. ALLCHIN 6 Muirchu's theology of conversion in his Vita Patricii THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN 7 Incarnate glory: the spirituality of D. Gwenallt Jones DENSIL MORGAN 8 The natural world in early Irish Christianity: an ecological footnote MARY LOW

Product details

• Authors: Mark Atherton
• Assisted by: Mark Atherton (Editor)
• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.04.2002
• EAN: 9780708316634
• ISBN: 978-0-7083-1663-4
• No. of pages: 211
• Series: Religion, culture & society series; Religion, Culture and Society; Religion, Culture and Society Series; Religion, Culture and Society
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; New, Britain, to, Traditions, Approaches, RELIGION / Christianity / History, RELIGION / Christianity / General, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, Christianity, Religious, Ireland, of, CE period up to c 1500, History of Religion, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, Church history, Christians, European history: medieval period, middle ages, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval, Celts