Celtic Spirituality : Classics of Western Spirituality,9780809105052

Celtic Spirituality : Classics of Western Spirituality

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ISBN13: 9780809105052
ISBN10: 0809105055
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2000-02-01
Publisher(s): Paulist Pr
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Summary

This volume offers translations of numerous texts from the Celtic tradition from the 6th through the 13th centuries, in a cross-section of genres and forms, including saints' lives, monastic texts, poetry, devotional texts, liturgical texts, apocrypha, exegetical texts and theological treatises.

Table of Contents

Preface xv
I. INTRODUCTION
An Introduction to Celtic Spirituality
3(23)
The Concept of a Celtic Spirituality
3(9)
The Origins of Celtic Christianity
12(4)
Celtic Christianity: Mission and Maturity
16(7)
Toward a Celtic Spirituality
23(3)
The Sources: Introduction to the Translated Texts
26(41)
Hagiography ``The Patrick Tradition''
26(11)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Monastic Texts
37(3)
Poetry
40(5)
Devotional Texts
45(2)
Liturgy
47(2)
Apocrypha
49(2)
Exegesis
51(2)
Homilies
53(2)
Theology
55(5)
A Note on the Selection and Translation
60(7)
II. THE TEXTS
Hagiography:
The Patrick Tradition
67(54)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Patrick's Declaration of the Great Works of God (the Confessio)
67(17)
The Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus
84(6)
The Sayings of Patrick (the Dicta)
90(1)
The Life of Patrick by Muirchu
91(27)
Patrick's Breastplate
118(3)
Oliver Davies
The Brigit Tradition
121(34)
Ultan's Hymn
121(1)
The Life of St. Brigit the Virgin by Cogitosus
122(18)
The Irish Life of Brigit
140(15)
The Voyage of Brendan
155(36)
The Life of St. David
191(22)
Rhigyfarch
The Life of Beuno
213(8)
The Life of St. Melangell
221(6)
Monastic Texts:
The Preface of Gildas on Penance
227(3)
The Penitential of Cummean
230(16)
The Rule for Monks by Columbanus
246(13)
Poetry:
Irish Poems
259(7)
A Hymn of Praise
259(1)
The Lord of Creation
259(1)
The Scribe in the Woods
259(1)
My Speech
260(1)
All Alone in My Little Cell
260(1)
Grant Me Tears, O Lord
261(1)
On the Flightiness of Thought
262(1)
Three Wishes
263(1)
The Saints' Calendar of Adamnan
263(1)
A Prayer to the Archangels for Every Day of the Week
264(2)
Welsh Poems
266(23)
Almighty Creator
266(1)
Padarn's Staff
267(1)
Glorious Lord
267(1)
Praise to the Trinity
268(1)
Praise to God
269(1)
Alexander's Breastplate
269(2)
Praising God at the Beginning and End
271(1)
The Advice of Addaon
272(1)
Elaeth's Englynion
273(1)
The Song of Elaeth
273(1)
The First Word I Say
274(2)
Maytime Is the Fairest Season
276(1)
Fragment of the Dispute Between Body and Soul
277(1)
To the Trinity
277(1)
Lord of Heaven
278(1)
The Deathbed Song of Meilyr the Poet
278(1)
Meilyr Son of Gwalchmai's Ode to God
279(2)
The Deathbed Song of Cynddelw
281(2)
The Loves of Taliesin
283(2)
Poem to the Virgin Mary
285(4)
Devotional Texts:
May Your Holy Angels
289(1)
O God, Lord of Creation
289(1)
The Breastplate of Laidcenn
289(3)
The Broom of Devotion
292(5)
Litany of the Virgin and All Saints
297(1)
Litany of the Creation
298(2)
May This Journey Be Easy
300(1)
The Path I Walk
300(1)
The Prayers of Moucan
301(5)
The Protection of the Father and the Son
306(5)
Liturgy:
The Tract on the Mass in the Stowe Missal
311(3)
Two Eucharistic Chants From the Stowe Missal
314(2)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Communion Hymn
316(1)
Hymn at the Lighting of the Paschal Candle
317(4)
Apocrypha:
The Evernew Tongue (1--22)
321(6)
The Creation of Adam
327(1)
The Power of Women
328(2)
The Vision of Adamnan
330(13)
Exegesis:
A Mystical Interpretation of the Beati (Psalm 118)
343(2)
Gloss on Psalm 103
345(8)
Homilies:
Sermons of Columbanus
353(10)
Sermon Five
353(1)
Sermon Eight
354(3)
Sermon Eleven
357(2)
Sermon Thirteen
359(4)
Catechesis Celtica: Commentary on Matthew XVI, 24
363(3)
An Old Irish Homily
366(3)
The Cambrai Homily
369(2)
Three Sunday Catecheses
371(8)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Theology:
On the Christian Life by Pelagius
379(26)
``The High First-Sower'' (the Altus Prosator) Columba
405(6)
Thomas O'Loughlin
Homily on the Prologue to The Gospel of John
411(22)
John Scottus Eriugena
The Food of the Soul
433(23)
Abbreviations 456(3)
Notes 459(71)
Select Bibliography 530(15)
I. Principal Printed Sources of the Translations
530(3)
II. Other Primary and Secondary Sources
533(12)
Index 545

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