The Voice of the Eagle: The Heart of Celtic Christianity

by Erigena, Johannes Scotus; Bamford, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780970109705
• ISBN10: 0970109709
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-10-01
• Publisher: Rudolf Steiner Pr

Summary

John Scotus Eriugena lived in Ireland during the early ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a 'holy sage', he carried the flower of Celtic Christianity to France. His homily, The Voice of the Eagle, is a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom.

Table of Contents

Foreword	9	(17)
Thomas Moore
Introductions	17	(2)
Introduction to the Second Edition
The Celtic Church & The Mystery of Celtic Christianity	19	(34)
Christopher Bamford
Introduction to the First Edition
John Scotus Eriugena & His Homily	53	(10)
Christopher Bamford
The Prologue	63	(4)
The Prologue to the Gospel of St. John	65	(2)
Eriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John	67	(48)
The voice of the eagle	69	(2)
O blessed John	71	(2)
Both however run	73	(2)
The spiritual bird	75	(1)
John therefore	76	(2)
In the beginning	78	(2)
All things were made through HIM	80	(2)
The consequence of the Word	82	(2)
What was made in him	84	(2)
All things	86	(2)
The light of human beings	88	(2)
And the light shone in darkness	90	(2)
The natural contemplation of these words	92	(2)
There was a man sent from God	94	(2)
John introduces John	96	(2)
``The Witness''	98	(2)
The true Light	100	(2)
He was in the world	102	(2)
Three worlds	104	(2)
His own	106	(2)
The Word made flesh	108	(2)
His glory	110	(2)
Full of grace & truth	112	(3)
Reflections	115	(210)
PART ONE The Way
Homily chapters I-V	117	(2)
The New Song	119	(6)
The Absurd Premise	125	(1)
The Eagle, Introduced	126	(2)
The Ear of the Word	128	(2)
Animus & Anima	130	(4)
The Eagle, Again	134	(3)
The Call of the Eagle	137	(4)
You wish to see? Then listen!	141	(1)
Making the Eagle Fly	142	(2)
Visible & Invisible	144	(6)
Innermost Theology	150	(2)
Theophany	152	(5)
Logos	157	(5)
The Grail of the Word	162	(4)
The Word	166	(2)
Grants & Gifts	168	(5)
Mystery	173	(3)
The Good	176	(2)
Peter & John	178	(1)
Faith	179	(3)
The Virgin Heart	182	(2)
A Ladder of Grace	184	(2)
Metanoia	186	(2)
Truth	188	(4)
The Stations of Faith	192	(2)
The Tomb	194	(4)
Nature & Scripture	198	(3)
Feeding the Five Thousand	201	(5)
Faith & Knowledge	206	(3)
Deification or Theosis	209	(8)
The Mystery of the Holy Trinity	217	(6)
Immaculate Conception	223	(6)
PART TWO The Word
Homily chapters VI-XIII	227	(2)
Father & Son	229	(4)
With God	233	(3)
Sacrifice	236	(3)
Co-inherence	239	(2)
Creation	241	(4)
Creator & Creation	245	(3)
Creation as Theophany	248	(3)
Fall	251	(10)
Life	261	(7)
Jesus the Imagination	268	(4)
On Light	272	(1)
Our Mysterious Nature	273	(9)
True Darkness	282	(7)
PART THREE The World
Homily chapters XIV-XXIII	287	(2)
Greeks and Jews	289	(5)
The Baptist	294	(13)
Witness	307	(3)
True Light	310	(5)
Bees of the Invisible	315	(5)
God Is Love	320	(3)
Last Words	323	(2)
Bibliography	325	(4)
Editions & Translations	327	(1)
Studies, etc.	327	(2)
Background Reading	329