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Mayhew-Smith, Nick,
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The naked hermit :
a journey to the heart of Celtic Britain /
Nick Mayhew-Smith.
London :
SPCK,
2019.
246 p., 16 p. of unnumbered plates :
ill. (col.), maps ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Timeline -- Map -- Introduction -- 1 Sacred trees -- 2 Celtic nature theology -- 3 The naked hermit of Mount Sinai -- 4 A company of birds -- 5 A desert in the sea: hermit islands -- 6 In for the chill: sacred bathing -- 7 The serpent's lair: harrowing caves -- 8 Misty peaks -- 9 Lessons from the Celtic shore -- Doxology: Creator
Descending into the darkness of a long-abandoned hermit's cave, wading naked into an icy sea to pray, spending the night on a sacred mountain, Nick Mayhew-Smith recounts an extraordinary one-man mission to revive the ancient devotions of Britain's most enigmatic holy places.
Based on ground-breaking research into the transition from Paganism to Christianity, this book invites the reader on a journey into the heart of the Celtic wilderness, exploring the deep-seated impulse to mark natural places as holy. It ends with a vision of how we can recover our harmony with the rest of creation: with the landscape, the weather and the wildlife, and ultimately with the body itself.
Follow the footsteps of holy men and women such as Columba, Patrick, Cuthbert, Gildas, Aidan, Bede, Ninian, Etheldreda, Samson and others into enchanting Celtic landscapes, and learn the unvarnished truth behind the stories that shape our spiritual and natural heritage.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 8, 2019).
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Cuthbert,
Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne,
approximately 635-687
5510
Bede,
the Venerable, Saint,
673-735.
63378
Columba,
Saint,
521-597.
Sacred space
Europe
100145
History.
Celts
93197
Religion.
Great Britain
Civilization, Celtic.
50370
Spirituality
85718
Celtic Church.
Christianity and other religions
101763
Paganism
History
Early church, ca. 30-600.
Environmentalism.
51624
Philosophy of nature.
54571
62048
Great Britain
Antiquities, Celtic.
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