IMC 2008: Sessions
Session 222: Aspects of the Natural World in Celtic Christianity
Monday 7 July 2008, 14.15-15.45
| Sponsor: | Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies, University of Wales, Lampeter |
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| Organiser: | Dan Tipp, Department of Theology & Religious Studies, University of Wales, Lampeter |
| Moderator/Chair: | Jonathan Wooding, Centre for the Study of Religion in Celtic Societies, University of Wales, Lampeter |
| Paper 222-a | Sanctus, sanctior, sanctissimus: The Defining of a Religious Landscape in Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) |
| Paper 222-b | The Saint and the Natural World: The Use of Segue in the Hagiography of Early Medieval Ireland (Language: English) |
| Paper 222-c | Ecology and Eschatology in 7th-Century Ireland (Language: English) |
| Abstract | This session is a discussion of the significance of the natural world in early Christian Ireland as expressed through a variety of literary sources. Each paper will explore the relationship between theology and the environment in which the literature was conceived. A variety of themes will be discussed such as the definition of religious landscape, sanctity, the natural world as a liminal boundary, ecology, and eschatology. It will be demonstrated that there was a harmonious relationship between the early Irish Church and the natural environment that was integral in the definition of a variety of theological hermeneutics. |