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The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity: John Scotus Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John

The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity: John Scotus Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John

Eriugena, John Scotus
Bamford, Christopher
Bamford, Christopher

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 0970109709
ISBN13: 9780970109705
Publisher: Lindisfarne Books
Published: Feb 1 2001
Pages: 228
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.75 Width: 5.24 Depth: 7.99
Language: English

Includes John Scotus Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John

This kind of theological writing will appear almost psychotic to the average modern person who has learned only how to be pragmatic, empirical, and materialistic in all things--particularly with regard to the interpretation of experience. After all, we live in a psychological era, in which we suppose that there is no meaning beyond emotion and the personal situation. How can Eriugena go on and on about God without mentioning our existential anxieties, our problems with human love? How can he prove any of his outrageous assertions? -- Thomas Moore (from his foreword)

John Scotus Eriugena was born and raised in Ireland during the early ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a holy sage, he carried to France the flower of Celtic Christianity. His homily, The Voice of the Eagle, is a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology, and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom. He meditates on the meaning and purpose of creation as revealed by the Word made flesh, distilling into twenty-three short chapters a uniquely Celtic, non-dualistic fusion of Christianity, Platonism, and ancient Irish wisdom.

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