Product Description
Celtic Saints and Animal Stories
Product Description
- Inspirational Celtic Saint and Animal Stories of kinship
- Features stories of historical saints
- Clearly shows how the human/animal kinship bring us closer to God
Product Details
Celtic Saints and Animal Stories by Edward Sellner, PhD, explores the significance of the spiritual kinship between human and animals. Sellner admits that he neglected this important aspect in his spiritual heritage earlier on. Now writing, Celtic Saints and Animal Stories, bringing essential aspect to light through stories of many Celtic saints is a great gift for us all. The lives of the Celtic saints constitute the largest body of hagiographies of any group in Christian history to have so many stories about this special kinship, revealing early and medieval Irish as true lovers of animals, with the saints sharing this quality to the full. While Native American and Hawaiian peoples, as well as certain Asian spiritual traditions such as Hinduism, Zen Buddhism, and Taoism have stories about animals, only the hagiographies of the Celtic saints have so many references to them as fellow creatures as Celtic Saints and Animal Stories clearly demonstrates by Sellner’s presentation.
This sense of kinship was an intrinsic aspect of Celtic Christian spirituality in Celtic lands. Celtic Saints and Animal Stories shares how later saints such as Hildegard of Bingen, Francis of Assisi, and Joan of Arc benefited from the Irish creature kinships. Anyone who studies these hagiographies can discern not only what the saints did for animals, often protecting them from hunters, but also what the animals did for the saints. This pattern of reciprocity is clearly highlighted in the pages of Celtic Saints and Animal Stories where we learn this type of spiritual kinship has a great deal to teach contemporaries about what can be called “a new spirituality of holiness.” The reader comes to understand through Celtic Saints and Animal Stories that we get closer to God through this kinship indicating that God’s creation deserves more respect, wonder and delight. Celtic Saints and Animal Stories is the perfect read for our times.
Dimensions & Specifications
- Measures 5-3/8”W x 8”H
- Paperback
- 104 pages
- Written by Edward Sellner, PhD.
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