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Celtic Christianity: A Sacred Tradition, a Vision of Hope »

Authors: Timothy J. Joyce
ISBN-13: 9781570751769, ISBN-10: 1570751765
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Orbis Books
Date Published: February 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

	Preface
1	Ancient Celts and Modern Christians	1
	Origin and Ways of the Celts	5
	Are There Any Modern Celts Today?	12
	The Celtic Tradition and the Christian Church	16
2	Christianity Comes to the Celts	18
	The Celtic Church and Rome	21
	Non-Roman Influences on the Celtic Church	23
	A Church of Place	24
	A Church of People	26
3	Celtic Monasticism	33
	Introduction of Monasticism to the Celts	35
	Celtic Monastic Women	41
	Monks as Pilgrims on a Journey	46
	Columcille: The Warrior Monk	49
	Columban: Feisty Monk Evangelizer	52
	The Monastic Inheritance	55
4	Crises and Continuation	57
	Celtic Doctrinal Controversies	58
	Conflict of Celtic Practices and Observances	62
	Celi De and Monastic Reform	67
	The Viking Invasions	73
	Celtic High Crosses and Towers	75
5	Decline	81
	Church Reform in Ireland	82
	The Anglo-Norman Invasion	87
	The Protestant Reformation	92
6	The Darkest Hour	98
	The Cromwellian Colonization	99
	The Eighteenth-Century Penal Laws	101
	The Great Hunger (1845-50)	105
	The New Irish Church	108
	Wine, Women, and Avarice	116
	Irish-American Spirituality	121
7	Twilight or Dawn?	128
	Forging an Irish Identity	129
	The Irish Literary and Cultural Revival	131
	A Spiritual Reclamation	135
	Communal Efforts of Celtic Renewal	140
8	Contemporary Vision	14S
	A Lesson for the Church of Today	149
	A Personal Spirituality for Today	153
	Celtic Christianity: A Choice	158
	Notes	163
	Bibliography	171
	Index	175