Thomas O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology: Humanity, World, and God in Early Irish Writings, Continuum, 2000.
Going through my backlog of drafts and I just realized that I never came back and finished this book review. Better late than never!
This really is quite a valuable book that dispels some common myths and gives you a real sense for [...]
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23 Mar
O’Loughlin’s Celtic Theology
4 Mar
Bead and Book
As Eamon Duffy wrote in his recent book Marking the Hours, the late middle ages were an age of bead and book. It was not a choice of either/or. On the eve of the Reformation both Books of Hours and Paternoster beads were found at all levels of society. In wills prayer beads and [...]
12 Feb
Bede’s Book of Hymns II
In my continuing quest to learn more about 8-9th century breviate psalters I’ve came across a couple interesting papers:
Thomas H Bestul (1986) “Continental Sources of Anglo-Saxon Devotional Writing” p. 103-126 in Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture. P Szarmach with V. Oggins, eds. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications.
Leslie Webber Jones. (1929) “Cologne MS.106: A Book of [...]
19 Jan
Breath of the Psalter
One of the specific steps in the distilled prayer project on Bede’s Abbreviated Psalter is to reformat Browne’s text in a single paragraph without all the spaces between the abbreviated psalms and remove verse numbers, and make observations. Medieval manuscripts shown in Browne’s book show the text this way, with no separation or marks to [...]
19 Jan
The Psalms Today
Walter Brueggemann, Praying the Psalms: Engaging Scripture and the Life of the Spirit. Second edition. Cascade books, 2007. 97 pages.
One of the specific aims of the distilled prayer project is to review modern scholarship on the psalms. There is quite a diversity of material available, much of it devoted to discussing individual psalms. This little [...]
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