{"id":95984,"date":"2020-03-17T16:53:46","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T15:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/uncategorized\/the-voice-of-the-eagle-the-heart-of-celtic-christianity"},"modified":"2021-02-20T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2021-02-20T11:45:46","slug":"the-voice-of-the-eagle-the-heart-of-celtic-christianity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/documentation-centre\/the-voice-of-the-eagle-the-heart-of-celtic-christianity","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of the Eagle. The Heart of Celtic Christianity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\" lang=\"es-ES\"><span lang=\"en-GB\">The first part of the book includes <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> John Scotus Eriugena&#8217;s &#8220;Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John&#8221;<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">. <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">The author, a sage<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> born and raised in Ireland during the early ninth century, carried to France the flower of Celtic Christianity. His homily, <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"><i>The Voice of the Eagle<\/i><\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">, 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. <\/span> <span lang=\"en-GB\">The translator&#8217;s &#8220;Reflections&#8221; make up the second <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">part <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">of th<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">e <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">book and attempt to unfold some of the life-giving meaning implicit in Eriugena&#8217;s luminous sentences. Inspired both by a personal search for a living Christianity and by a sense of the continuity of Western culture, these <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">r<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">eflections offer a contemporary, meditative encounter with the Logos<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">,<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\"> as mediated by both St. John&#8217;s Prologue and Eriugena&#8217;s Celtic homily. <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">It <\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">includes a new foreword by Thomas Moore<\/span><span lang=\"en-GB\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-95984\" data-postid=\"95984\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-95984 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first part of the book includes John Scotus Eriugena&#8217;s &#8220;Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":95975,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[105,139],"tags":[311,258],"class_list":["post-95984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-documentation-centre","category-reflections-on-nature-and-spirituality-en","tag-christianity","tag-worldview","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95984"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96072,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95984\/revisions\/96072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.silene.ong\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}