THEO 228 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Neologism, Celtic Christianity, John Cassian
20 Mar 2020
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A celtic cosmology: the high first- sower ( altus prosator: theology: implicit and explicit, we have encountered theology in primary source material, first-hand accounts of patrick, hagiographical material, poetry, material culture. In early medieval insular contexts, such a separation would have been inconceivable: for the. Celtic christian, theological theory without lived practice would have missed the point of theology completely. As such, in this lesson we"ll consider an explicitly scholarly tract, but also an apocalyptic hymn, and two spiritual manuals: columba"s hymn, the high first-sower, (in latin: altus prosator, attributed to st. columba - identified as a poet. Recently contested by pushing the date of the work to the second half of the 7th century. A half century after columba"s death: generally accepted to be written in lona, if not by columba then in the tradition of st. In the latin original, each stanza begins with a letter of the latin alphabet in order from a to.
