Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul: Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World by John Philip Newell

285 Pages

Publisher: Harper One

Release Date: July 6, 2021

Nonfiction (Adult), Religion, Spirituality, Self-Help, Celtic, Metaphysical, Nature

The book is divided into the following chapters.

Chapter 1: Sacred Soul – Pelagius

Chapter 2: Sacred Feminine – St. Brigid of Kildare

Chapter 3: Sacred Flow – John Scotus Eriugena

Chapter 4: Sacred Song – The Carmina Gadelica

Chapter 5: Sacred Imagination – Alexander John Scott

Chapter 6: Sacred Earth – John Muir

Chapter 7: Sacred Matter – Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Chapter 8: Sacred Compassion – George MacLeod

Chapter 9: Sacred Journey- Kenneth White

This book tells the story of the Celtic people and their culture beginning with the first historically recorded writer, a monk named Pelaguis. He continues with Brigid including Celtic and fifth century Christian stories. Chapters three discusses how Celtic wisdom began to take on a more philosophical form and chapter four shows the separation of church and state. The history then moves to the nineteenth century where the reader learns about the divine within all things and goes onto John Muir, one of the most prominent ecologists of modern times. This is a wonderful book and I recommend it to anyone interested in Celtic history.

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