Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... Climbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain (edition 2004)by Chet Raymo
Work InformationClimbing Brandon: Science and Faith on Ireland's Holy Mountain by Chet Raymo
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. no reviews | add a review
An acclaimed science writer celebrates an enduring symbol of Ireland's Celtic past, Christian tradition and love of nature. In this rich celebration of Mount Brandon, Raymo weaves together myth and science, folklore and natural history, spiritual and physical geographies. He takes us to a time when Mediterranean Christianity ran up against Celtic nature worship and the Irish forged a fusion of knowledge and faith that sustains us today. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNone
Google Books — Loading... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)936.1History and Geography Ancient World Europe north and west of Italian Peninsula to ca. 499 British Isles to 410LC ClassificationRatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
His reverence for the natural world is contagious and as I read I feel I am walking beside a trusted, deeply knowledgeable guide and mentor, listening to him chat about the plants I'm seeing, the rocks under my feet, the salt on my lips, the wonders of the ocean before me, the living history all around me. He is a splendid guide, and one who inspires delight and awe in the marvels of creation.
In this book, he concentrates on the early Irish Christian philosophy of the immanence of God as opposed the the Roman concept of transcendence, and contemplates what the world might have been, and might yet be like, if we adopted, as the early Irish Christians did, a celebratory sense of God's greatest revelation -- creation itself -- rather than asserting abstract dogma.
As always with Raymo, I come away with a new reading list as well - Columbanus, Augustine Hibernicus, John Carey, E.O. Wilson, Noel Dermot O'Donoghue, Marina Smyth...
All in all, a highly recommended read! ( )