{"product_id":"early-celtic-christianity-9780094731608","title":"Early Celtic Christianity","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis lively and original account of early Celtic Christianity - which was of far greater importance in the development of Western culture than we commonly realize - is told against the background of European history of the first seven centuries A.D. It focuses on the lives of Saints Brendan  Columba  and Columbanus  who lived active and effective lives in the cause of the early Church. Brendan  one of the founding fathers of Christianity in Ireland  was known in legend as a voyager and was thought to have reached the Western Hemisphere long before the Vikings. Columba took Celtic Christianity to Scotland and helped to re-establish it in Wales and in the North and West of England. Columbanus was the great Irish missionary to continental Europe  where he and his followers helped to convert the heathen invaders from the East. When Rome  in the person of St. Augustine  Pope Gregorys apostle to the Angles  penetrated again to England  a showdown between Roman and Celtic Christianity was inevitable. The dramatic confrontation occurred at the Council of Whitby in 664. Rome  with its organization and authority  won  and Celtic Catholicism went into eclipse. But some of its influence persisted all over Europe  and it had a large share in shaping the culture that ultimately emerged from the dark ages. This books fascination is the picture that it gives of the movements of peoples  the shaping of new countries  and the development of ideas during those too-little-known centuries.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45652944683061,"sku":"ByrdShop_0094731608","price":386.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780094731608.jpg?v=1781854130","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/early-celtic-christianity-9780094731608","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}