Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition by Benedicta Ward


Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
Title : Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition
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ISBN : 087907213X
ISBN-10 : 9780879072131
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 104
Publication : First published July 1, 1999

From the rich tradition of the Anglo-Saxon Church of the sixth, seventh, and eighth centuries, Benedicta Ward has selected prayers and passages for meditation from both Latin and Anglo-Saxon sources. The mixture of Latin and Celtic Christian cultures, distilled and appropriated by the Germanic Anglo-Saxons, produced a distinctive English spiritual tradition which embraced kings and princesses, abbesses and monks, cowherds and poets, soldiers and beggars, and birds and animals. `It is possible through these passages to walk with these men and women as friends and see how their lives became filled with the life of Christ, in pain and desolation as well as in wonder, love, and praise. '

Benedicta Ward is Reader in Spirituality at Harris Mansfield College Oxford, and a member of the Community of the Sisters of the Love of God. Among her many books are The Venerable Bede, andHigh King of Heaven, Aspects of Early English Spirituality.

Christ Within Me: Prayers and Meditations from the Anglo-Saxon Tradition Reviews

  • Kaz

    'Christ Within Me' is a fantastic collexion of texts surrounding the ancient Christian Churches of Britain. The selected quotations hearken to an æra of Christian unity: the prayers find uniqueness in their metaphors, and vitæ in people and locations. Their understanding of Christ and His Church, and devotion to Them could as easily be from a text on the Desert Fathers. Although Sr Benedicta's protestantism is apparent in her labelling of chapters and introduction, the words speak for themselves, calling the readers to a life more attune with Holy Tradition.

  • Vincent

    Relying heavily upon the Bede the Venerable and Alcuin of York, this short book is orders single page prayers and meditations by theme. An appendix at the back of the text acknowledges the sources for each page, but these may have been more significantly placed after each quotation.