Sacred time in early christian Ireland : the monks of the Nauigatio and the Céli Dé in dialogue to explore the theologies of time and the liturgy of the hours in pre-Viking Ireland
Uses two case studies from early Christian Ireland, the Nauigatio sancti Brendani abbatis and the Rules of the Celi De to demonstrate two different ways of understanding sacred time.
XIV, 258 p. ill. 25 cm
9780567032058, 0567032051
1056606813
1. Introduction; 2. Different Ways of Praying - Historical Background; 3. Different Opinions - Past and Present; 4. Different Interpretations of Time - The Methodology and the Myth; 5. Different Visions of Sacred Time - Implications of Liturgical Prayer; 6. 'Different Men' - The Monks of the Nauivatio and the Celi De; 7. Different Monastic Praxis - The Liturgy of the Hours; 8. Different Structures - The Liturgical Year; 9. Different Liturgical Theologies; 10. Different Paths... to the Same Goal?; 11. Conclusion: Different Mentalities - The Parting of the Liturgical Ways?; Appendix A: Brendan the Abbot Celebrates Easter: Scriptural and Liturgical Paschal Allusions in the Nauigatio; Appendix B: The Identification of the Birds in the Nauigatio.