Celtic Christianity
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Christianity in the Celtic language–speaking world during the early Middle Ages
In the Vinony graph
Vinony's link graph records 1,518 inbound references to Celtic Christianity, and connects out to Columba, Brigid of Kildare and Anglo-Saxon settlement of England.
It sits within the topics 12th-century disestablishments in Ireland, 5th-century establishments in Ireland and Catholic Church in Ireland.
Vinony links it to 31 Wikipedia language editions.
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- Instance of
- Christian denomination
- Subclass of
- Christianity
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- Category:Celtic Christianity
- Commons category
- Celtic Christianity
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- New International Encyclopedia
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Encyclopedic overview
A Celtic Cross in Knock, Ireland
Celtic Christianity is a form of Christianity that was common, or held to be common, across the Celtic-speaking world during the Early Middle Ages. The term Celtic Church is deprecated by many historians as it implies a unified and identifiable entity entirely separate from that of mainstream Western Christendom. For this reason, Brown (2003) notes a preference for the term Insular Christianity. As Patrick Wormald explained, "One of the common misconceptions is that there was a Roman Church to which the Celtic Church was nationally opposed."
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Celtic Christianity” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.