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Christ of the Celts: The Healing of Creation by J. Philip Newell

2.75

hopeful informative reflective slow-paced

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I read this book as part of our EfM book club. I’m not sure I would have xO rubies but for the requirement to complete it because many of the precepts have been covered in a less disjointed way in books like Cahill’s How the Irish Saved Civilization. Still I appreciated reading Newell’s perspective on Celtic Christianity, of a loving Jesus and a spirituality based on creation and healing. His discussions if Julian of Norwich, George Macleod, and Teilhard de Chardonnay were enlightening. I’m glad I made it to the end of a book I might have DNFed otherwise.