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| Celtic Christianity |
| What is this thing called Celtic Christianity? Some new denomination?
Some "new-agey" paganism in a Christian package? As we understand it, "Celtic Christianity" refers to the way true Christian life and worship developed among the Celtic peoples of the first through twelfth centuries. It was not a form of paganism. It was a form of Christianity which drew upon the ethnic and social characteristics of the Celts so that it differed markedly from Roman and Eastern churches in form, but not in substance. We are not seeking to revive this form of life and worship - though many believers have done so. We are merely interested in what God was doing in that time and place to draw all men to Himself. When we study Celtic Christianity, we actually study the work of God. |
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| 37 Joseph of Arimathea et al. bring the Gospel to the British Isles |
| 2nd Cent. Ninian evangelizes Picts |
| 325 Council of Nicea; British bishops attend and are seated in prominence second only to those from Jerusalem |
| 5th Cent. Patrick sent out by British church as Apostle to Ireland |
| 557 Columcille establishes monastery at Iona |
| 7th - 8th Cents. First Irish, then Scottish, and finally Welsh churches adopt Roman practices over Celtic traditions |
| 1172 Treaty of Cashel eliminates all traces of Pre-Roman practice among churches in the British Isles |
| 7th - 12th Cents. Illuminated manuscripts like the Book of Kells and carved stone "High Crosses" flourish throughout the Isles |
| 5th - 8th Cents. Flourishing of Celtic monasteries and missionary activity across European continent, reaching even to Italy |
| 597 Death of Columcille; arrival of Augustine in Kent |
| Finding the "Celtic" in Christianity |