Summary of John Philip Newell's Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul

Everest Media

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 Around 50 CE, a shift began to occur in parts of the Celtic world, from Druidic to Christian wisdom. The first Christian teacher to emerge in Celtic territory was Irenaeus of Lyons, who had studied in Asia Minor under Polycarp, who in turn had been a student of St. John in Ephesus.
#2 Irenaeus was a priest in the second century who was against the way in which celibacy was beginning to be seen as a higher path than marriage. He insisted that the divine and the human are inseparable, and that heaven is found in the things of earth.
#3 Irenaeus’s teachings on earth’s sacredness and humanity’s primal instinct for it represent a betrayal of humanity’s deep natural knowing. Christ, according to Irenaeus, is a radical affirmation of this knowing.
#4 Pelagius was a teacher who arrived in Rome in the 380s. He became a spiritual adviser to some of the leading families of the church in Rome. But controversy engulfed him almost immediately, as the church father Jerome and others relentlessly criticized him.

Sujets

• Celtic Spirituality

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 23 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669358374
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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#1

Around 50 CE, a shift began to occur in parts of the Celtic world, from Druidic to Christian wisdom. The first Christian teacher to emerge in Celtic territory was Irenaeus of Lyons, who had studied in Asia Minor under Polycarp, who in turn had been a student of St. John in Ephesus.

#2

Irenaeus was a priest in the second century who was against the way in which celibacy was beginning to be seen as a higher path than marriage. He insisted that the divine and the human are inseparable, and that heaven is found in the things of earth.

#3

Irenaeus’s teachings on earth’s sacredness and humanity’s primal instinct for it represent a betrayal of humanity’s deep natural knowing. Christ, according to Irenaeus, is a radical affirmation of this knowing.

#4

Pelagius was a teacher who arrived in Rome in the 380s. He became a spiritual adviser to some of the leading families of the church in Rome. But controversy engulfed him almost immediately, as the church father Jerome and others relentlessly criticized him.

#5

The third and primary criticism of Pelagius was that he believed that when we look into the face of a newborn, we are looking into the face of God freshly born among us. This went against the belief system of imperial Christianity, which believed that anything pre-Christian should be eradicated.

#6

The teachings of Pelagius were very similar to those of Jesus, but he also believed in the sacredness of nature, spiritual practice, wisdom, and compassion. He believed that the essence of our being is never undone, and that it can only be covered over by falseness and delusion.

#7

Pelagius believed in the importance of grace, and he believed in the sacredness of nature. He also believed in the importance of meditative prayer, and he called it like plowing the fertile soil of our soul.

#8

Pelagius, the British monk, believed that it was not what you believed about Jesus that mattered, but rather how you became like Jesus. He believed that all humans have a sacred nature, and that the journey to wholeness is about awakening to this wisdom deep within.

#9