The Voice of the Eagle by John Scotus Eriugena, Paperback | Indigo Chapters

Includes John Scotus Eriugena's "Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John" John Scotus Eriugena was born and raised in Ireland during the early ninth century. Neither monk nor priest but a "holy sage," he carried to France the flower of Celtic Christianity. His homily, The Voice of the Eagle, is a jewel of lyrical mysticism, theology, and cosmology, containing the essence of Celtic Christian wisdom. He meditates on the meaning and purpose of creation as revealed by the Word made flesh, distilling into twenty-three short chapters a uniquely Celtic, non-dualistic fusion of Christianity, Platonism, and ancient Irish wisdom. The translator's "Reflections" make up the second half of this book and attempt to unfold some of the life-giving meaning implicit in Eriugena's luminous sentences. Inspired both by a personal search for a living Christianity and by a sense of the continuity of Western culture, these "Reflections" offer a contemporary, meditative encounter with the Word, or Logos, as mediated by both St. John's Prologue and Eriugena's Celtic homily. This favorite of Celtic Christianity, unavailable for several years, has been revised and includes a new foreword by Thomas Moore, author of Care of the Soul and The Soul of Sex. C O N T E N T S Foreword by Thomas MooreIntroductions The Prologue to the Gospel of St. JohnEriugena's Homily on the Prologue to the Gospel of St. John REFLECTIONS: Part One: The Way: Homily Chapters I-VPart Two: The Word: Homily Chapters VI-XIIIPart Three: The World: Homily Chapters XIV-XXIII Bibliography: Editions and TranslationsStudies, etc. Background Reading | The Voice of the Eagle by John Scotus Eriugena, Paperback | Indigo Chapters