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	What Was the Celtic Church?
		The Celtic Church, they claimed, had nothing to do with Catholicism and Scotland didn't become Roman Catholic until much later, beginning with the Synod of Whitby and really becoming Catholic under the reign of St. Margaret.
		Depending on who is putting forth the argument, the Celtic Church was either some primitive form of Presbyterianism, or non-denominational Protestantism, or Eastern Orthodox, or a New Age blend of Christianity and Druidical paganism.
		Most non-Catholics view the Catholic Church as this great monolithic institution, and are completely unaware that different Rites exist within the Catholic Church.
	albanach.org /celtic_church.htm (728 words)

	The Celtic Catholic Church welcomes you
		On most pages there is a search box so Munchin, the Celtic Catholic church mouse, can help you find the information you need.
		This site is intended to provide information; to share something of the treasure we have found in the saints, the history, and the modern reality of Celtic Christianity; and to facilitate real fellowship between people.
		Church means a real priest, real people, real Sacraments, none of which a web site can provide.
	www.celtic-catholic-church.org /index2.html (253 words)

	The Decline of the Celtic Church at Mostly Medieval - Exploring the Middle Ages
		However, the Celtic church was already established and had consequently assimilated many of the pagan deities into its beliefs and converted a significant number to the religion.
		Even though the Celtic missionaries effectively spread word of their church throughout western and central Europe, the Celtic church was on the losing side of a power struggle with the centralized church of Rome.
		Despite the synods of Whitby and Autun, which eradicated Celtic Christianity in England and France, the Celtic church flourished in Scotland and Ireland, continuing the longest in areas of Scotland where, in 1069 the Celtic church was officially abolished by King Malcolm Canmore.
	www.skell.org /explore/decline.htm (722 words)

	CELTIC CHURCH. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		that played a significant role in church affairs on the Continent seem to have had little influence in Britain, and although it was the home of Pelagius (see Pelagianism), his teachings did not gain followers there until 421 with an influx of refugees from the Continent.
		The period of peace that followed the British defeat of the Saxons at Mons Badonicus (c.500) once again allowed for growth of the Celtic Church (especially through the work of St. Columba), although isolation from the Continent continued until the mission of St. Augustine.
		He failed, and it was not until the Synod of Whitby (664, see Whitby, Synod of) that such agreement was largely reached, although independent Celtic churches continued on in Wales and Ireland.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/ce/CelticCh.html (304 words)

	SM
		The Celtic Church was never involved in the heresies and religious intrigues that marred the first three centuries of the Church and never associated with any other religious jurisdiction or denomination.
		The Church recognizes the spirit of the first three Ecumenical Councils of the early Christian Church, which were attended by Bishops of the ancient Celtic Church.
		The Holy Celtic Church is not interested in the number or size of its church groups, but rather in the understanding, sincerity and strength its members have in practicing the early Christian faith.
	www.celticsynod.org /celtic.htm (1309 words)

	Celtic Episcopal Church - Homepage
		The Fact that the Celtic Church never had much to do with powerful institutions, was one of its strengths, it formed its witness and life among the insignificant and poor.
		In the early witness of the Celtic Church in Britain, there were two expressions of Christian faith: one that was uncritically linked with the values of a collapsing empire, and the other that took Jesus' teaching in the Sermon on the Mount at face value and dared to live it.
		While the Celtic Churches were more theologically orthodox and accepted as such by the universal church a number of differences are immediately apparent when one looks at the history of these churches.
	www.celticepiscopalchurch.com /view/?pageID=94536 (678 words)

	Ancient Quest - Home Page
		Celtic Christianity, and the early Celtic church, is a subject of growing interest today, along with increased interest in the Celtic saints and, especially, the places of pilgrimage relating to early Celtic monasteries or churches, such as Iona, Kells, Whithorn, or St. Illtud's Church in Wales.
		The "heyday" of the Celtic church was from the early 5th through the 8th centuries.
		The early British church is known to have sent Bishops to the Council of Arles in 314 AD - well before the arrival of St. Augustine in Canterbury in 597 AD., which is often assumed to be the "beginning" of Christianity in Britain.
	www.ancientquest.com /embark/celticchurch.html (1665 words)

	Celtic Spirituality - Let's be discerning! by The Rev. Steve Allen, Vicar of St.John's Great Horton, Bradford. England.
		Celtic spirituality is to be welcomed in so far as it seeks to restore a balance between affirming both the essential goodness of Creation and mankind's need for forgiveness.
		As persecution eased, so the Christian church rapidly grew worldly and the growth of asceticism was one interpretation of what it meant to be 'a living sacrifice'.
		The echoes of paganism in Celtic spirituality have become fertile ground for New Age religionists who are in danger of making it their own.
	www.openheaven.com /library/celtic/discerning.htm (1512 words)

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		The early Celtic church was close to the Church in Ephesus and kept Easter at Passover as taught by St. John of Ephesus.
		Archaeological evidence supports the existence of the Christian church in Briton during the first century with one of the earliest known church structures identified from approximately 140 A.D. This proves the Celtic Church is much older than the Roman Catholic Church, which was began in 326 A.D. by the Emperor Constantine.
		The Celtic Church was known to the Reformers and much of the liturgy in the Anglican Church was modeled after the Celtic Liturgy.
	www.angelfire.com /nc3/celtic-church (1156 words)

	CELTIC HISTORY; BRIEFLY...
		Celtic technicians of the La Tene period were technically superior to their Greek and Roman counterparts.
		Celtic religion taught the reincarnation of all individual souls, and the appearance of divine beings on Earth.
		Celtic man on the continental mainland wore trousers with a tunic, but in Britain and Ireland the men wore a thigh-high tunic and a cloak, the ever-present dagger or sword, and leather or fur footgear tied around the legs.
	www.joellessacredgrove.com /Celtic/history.html (2936 words)

	Dara Molloy, Celtic Monk, Celtic Priest: Writings
		Celtic spirituality, on the contrary, is an indigenous spirituality, where the local influence is intrinsic to it.
		Although church theologians have softened their attitude towards unbaptised children, there is still no change in the churchís position with regard to original sin.
		Augustine and others were insisting that authority rested with the church leaders in matters of belief and that members of the church were obliged to accept the teaching of these in authority.
	www.daramolloy.com /DaraMolloy/Writings/CelticSpirituality.html (3331 words)

	CELTIC CHRISTIANITY - a research paper
		Regardless of origin, the Celtic Church was well enough established by the fourth century to send delegates to the Synod of Arles in 314 (regarding the Donatist problem) and the Council of Aruminum (Rimini) in 359 (regarding the Arian heresy), and obviously considered itself and active member of the Church at large (Zimmer, p.468).
		The separation the Celtic churches had experienced in the fifth and sixth centuries was part of the reason they found it hard to accept what Roman Christianity had become when they were approached by Augustine.
		Since the Celtic church did not have the territorial organization of the Roman church, it's "communities of missionary monks" (Simpson, p.109) were well suited to the task of evangelization.
	www.geocities.com /eliseact/Articles/celtic.html (1491 words)

	Faith and Worship - Celtic Christianity
		Many theologians within the Church, as well as historians have reservations about the use of the term ‘Celtic Christianity’; or ‘Celtic Church’ because it encourages the response ‘What do we mean by the terms?’ and involves us in a long debate as to how we separate fact from fable, mysticism from myth.
		One eminent historian asserts that there was no such thing as a Celtic Church and goes on to argue that the concept can be extremely misleading when attempting to understand the development of religious thought throughout the British Isles in the early medieval period.
		Celtic society was rural, hierarchical, family based and tribal in nature, with each tribe ruled by its own king.
	www.faithandworship.com /Celtic_Christianity.htm (1336 words)

	The Human Conspiracy Blog » About “The Church” and Those Darned Celtic Mystics (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The criticisms are made in a confidential Church document, leaked to The Sunday Telegraph, that challenges the “widespread description” of Britain as a multi-faith society and even calls for the term “multi-faith” to be reconsidered.
		The Celtic Church refers to the Church as it was in Ireland and Great Britain in the early medieval times, when it was considered isolated from Rome and developed a distinctly Celtic spirituality.
		The similarity of the Celtic Cross to ancient symbols such as various Sun symbols and the swastika rather firmly established the notion that these pre-Christian signs were prototypes of the Christian Celtic Cross.
	jaygaskill.com /blog1/2006/10/09/about-the-church-and-those-darned-celtic-mystics (1415 words)

	Richard Woods: The Spirituality of the Celtic Church
		If the rich history of the Celtic churches is a fairly recent discovery, their spirituality may be an even more surprising resource for a life-affirming, holistic, and faithful way of life for Christians in this "postmodern" world and, more importantly, the world of the future.
		There the mystical element of Celtic spirituality became manifest with its paradoxical tensions between the sense of the nearness and farness of God, the melancholy fleetingness of all life, and the vanity of the world, yet the grandeur and wonder of creation in all its ecstatic and myriad loveliness.
		The earliest Christian Celtic art is poetry, the bardic elegies and lyrics of the poets of the British courts in the sixth century.
	www.spiritualitytoday.org /spir2day/853735woods.html (4312 words)

	The Celtic Church in Ireland
		Celtic Christians brought the gospel to the "barbarians" in Frisian, France, Switzerland etc. who had replaced the order of the Roman empire.
		She differed in many ways from the Churches in the west: in doctrine, in church government, in the time of celebrating Easter, celibacy, the form of the tonsure.
		She was primarily a monastic Church, without the centralized, geographically ordered network that the Roman Church had inherited from the Roman Empire.
	www.irishchristian.org /History/Irish.htm (1389 words)

	Church of Cambria
		The Church of Cambria was the fountainhead of Celtic Christianity from the time of the Apostles and for many centuries thereafter.
		The Church is an outpost of the rule of Christ, and therefore, must have jurisdiction within a geographical venue.
		If you are not family-oriented and like the structure of the institutional church, you should consider enrolling in the continuing Anglican Church or the recently formed Celtic Churches which adhere to the traditional doctrine of Apostolic succession.
	grailchurch.org /churchof.htm (1509 words)

	The Celtic Church in Scotland - History (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The Celtic Church has existed in one form or another from within a decade of Christ's death and ressurection, it existed as an established church until the reformation, at which point it retreated into small Highland communities, until the 1800's when it was driven underground.
		Archaeological evidence supports the existence of the Christian church in Britain during the first century with one of the earliest known church structures identified from approximately 140 A.D. This proves the Celtic Church is much older than the Roman Catholic Church, which was began in 326 A.D. by the Emperor Constantine.
		The Church in Ephesus became an important influence to the established churches in northern Britain and Scotland.
	www.the-celtic-church-in-scotland.org /history.html (1780 words)

	St Cuthbert's Website : Celtic Way - Introduction page
		The rediscovery of the Celtic Way has, in recent years, been spurred by anniversaries in 1997 of the coming of Ninian (397) and the death of Columba (597), coinciding as it did with the launch of Augustine's Roman mission at Canterbury (597).
		Each of the Celtic saints has his or her legend of challenging the evil of their times and the severity of their penitence was not for the fainthearted.
		The great appeal of the Celtic Way is their everyday spirituality; the blessing of the fire and the cow, the prayer for the weaving and the milking.
	www.st-cuthberts.net /celticpn.htm (1899 words)

	Celtic Christianity--Beliefnet.com
		The Celtic Church was founded within a decade of Christ's resurrection by missionaries from Jerusalem and Ephesus and over the years the church has maintained close contact with those churches.
		The practice of Lent began with the Gallican Church (the Celtic Church on continental Europe) in the 4th century and was later adopted by Rome.
		The Celtic Churches had two alters, one in the far east end of the church and one in the front of the church.
	www.beliefnet.com /boards/message_list.asp?boardID=44248&discussionID=372620 (1025 words)

	Celtic Christianity
		Specifically, Celtic Christianity refers to the branch of Christianity which was unique to the peoples of the British Isles during the early Middle Ages.
		Celtic Christians are fond of the small group and a liturgy which is an expression of personal faith.
		Celtic theology teaches that the Holy Spirit is the representative of God's femininity and that sexuality is reflective of God's creative power.
	grailchurch.org /celtic.htm (969 words)

	Clan Livingstone - The Celtic Church
		The churches of France and Spain, must yield in point of antiquity and precedence to that of Britain, as the latter Church was founded by Joseph of Arimathea immediately after the Passion of Christ.
		Therefore, to use the parallel of the Anglican Church, the Celtic Church clearly existed, as it was demonstrably an organised Christian body.
		In the early seventh century the main differences between the Roman Church and the Celtic Church was that whereas the Roman structure was episcopal and centred on cathedrals, the Celtic Church was abbatical and centred on monasteries - more properly muintirs or families.
	www.clanlivingstone.com /Celtic_Church.htm (394 words)

	The Celtic Church in Ireland (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She differed in many ways from the Churches in the west: in doctrine, in church government, in the time of celebrating Easter, celibacy, the form of the tonsure.
		She was primarily a monastic Church, without the centralized, geographically ordered network that the Roman Church had inherited from the Roman Empire.
		The decrees issued at the synod of Cashel mark the end of the (independent) Celtic Church and the final alignment with the Church of Rome.
	www.iol.ie /~santing/History/Irish.htm (1044 words)

	Celtic Church
		The first church in Great Britain and the last one before there was a State Church.
		I'm genuinely interested in what you would see as the defining characteristics of the Celtic Church, and which church you are referring to as Britain's first State Church.
		In that sense of women being free to lead with gusto it was very Celtic, as was the acceptance of youth culture generally.
	clublet.com /why?CelticChurch (301 words)

	EUROPE: Western / Celtic Traditions
		Celtic Christianity, and the early Celtic church, is a subject of growing interest today, along with increased interest in the Celtic saints and, especially, the places of pilgrimage relating to early Celtic monasteries or churches, such as Iona, Kells, Whithorn, or St. Illtud's Church in Wales.
		The Coptic Church is Egyptian, leading one to ponder about possible "desert father" connections with the early Celtic saints, who seem to have used them as a monastic model....
		By 600 BC "Celtic" was said to be spoken in Iberia, Ireland, and around the Italian Lakes, and it is reasonable to assume that it was also in use over much, but not all, of the intervening area.
	www.mythinglinks.org /euro~west~celtic.html (6470 words)

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