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Preface
. Almost all of the references listed
are the outcome of un-assisted searches in public archives, libraries
and on the Net using key word searches which occurred at the time.
No attempt has been made to either include or exclude any source
or author. The distribution of categories of author is therefore
random.
The
two exceptions are the books "The Principality and Power of Europe"
and "The Pictish Nation its People and Its Church". The first
was listed in a broadsheet which was not solicited in 1997. The
second was loaned by a friend about two years ago. Neither
was this book solicited.
Scottish
History in General and in Relation to Iona / Columba .
The Declaration of Arbroath (1320). nb. Scythia relates to the general area o f modern day Denmank, not to the Scythia north of of the Black Sea.
Our Pictish Religious Heritage .
"The
Pictish Nation, its People and its Church ". By Archibald
Black Scott (1918) The author of this detailed work was
a minister. There are many detailed sourcing references. This
author has it that the Church of Iona had been Romanised long
before the union of the Scots and Picts under Kenneth MacKalpin.
It was therefore resisted for hundreds of years by the rump of
the Christian Pictish Church as established by St. Ninian several
hundred year before Columba's time. This author states that the
Culdees were of the Christian Church of the Picts.
"A
History of The Scottish Nation" by J.A. Wylie. (1886).
A minister. The entire text of this three volume work is published
on the Web and can be printed off a chapter at a time. (set your
printer to double sided printing). This author has it that The
Pictish Church was Romanised before the Church of Columba and
therefore resisted Columba's Church at the time of the union of
Picts and Scots. Below is a summary of the chapters considered
of most relevance. Those marked with an asterisk are considered
core reading. The chapter summaries which appear directly from
the following hypertext link make interesting reading in there
own right. www.electricscotland.com/history/wylie/index.htm
Volume
1
Chapter
20 The Cradle of The Scots. *
23 The Kindling of The Lamp of Iona
24 Battles, Political and Ecclesiastical
25 Iona and Rome - The Second Roman Invasion
26 Union of the Scots and Picts, The Scottish Nation.
Volume 2
Chapter
2
Service of The Scots to Christianity -Middle Ages.
3 A Second Morning in Scotland*
21 Columba departs
from Ireland, arrives in Iona. Iona and Rome.
22 Organisation of
Iona; Ecclesiastical Government.
26 Celtic Evangelisation,
France, The Rhine, Switzerland and Italy.
27 Columbanus in Italy;
His greatest Protest Against The Papacy, Founds Bobbio.*
28 The Culdean Church.
Overthrow of The Culdean Church
Volume
3
Chapter
3
Eth, Grig; Pictish Persecution of Columban
Church. Toleration
6 Special Mission of Scotland,
Synod of Scone, A Tenth Century Reformation.
7 Destruction of Early Scottish
Literature. The Columbanites Metamorphosed. *
13 Queen Margaret - Conference
with Culdee Pastors.*
14 Glimpses of The Columban Church
-Fall of Iona
15 Translation of The Chair of
Columba; The One Bishop of Alba.
16 Epochs of Revival in Columban
Church
17 The Culdees- Their Origin-
Their Functions - Their Diffusion.*
21 King David's Ecclesiastical
Policy - Suppression of The Culdees.*
Some years ago Prime Minister John Major presided over
a European Summit held in Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh.
This was intended to continue the process of the subordination
of Nation States to Brussels. History requires us to focus upon
The European Commission itself as the originator of all strategies
and policies for the full integration of Europe. This deception
of the people is global in nature and is the attempted fusion
of the religion of politics and the politics of religion. The
two faces of the religion of politics are temporal power and Mammon.
What then of the faces of the politics or religion? Where, in
either falsehood will we find Sovereignty of the people?
It was the same John Major who decided to return The Stone to
Scotland shortly after the summit - initially to the same building
in which the summit had been held. Why then, why that building?
A building with a significant ecclesiastical and monarchical
history.
The
Columban Church
"The
Religion of St. Columba - The Substance of a Lecture"
(1897) by T.I. Ball. The author was a minister and also
Provost of Cumbrae. The lecture was delivered in St. John's Church,
Oban. Available for consultation in the Manuscript Room of The
Advocates Library, Edinburgh. Manuscript No.
This
lecture describes the characteristics of the Church of Columba's
time as 1. Dogmatic 2. Miraculous (believing in and anticipating
miracles). 3. Interacted with what is referred to as The Communion
of Saints. 4. Based on Scripture. (not a flippant observation)
5. Sacredotal and Sacremental. (Comment: This included
a belief in Priestly Absolution - is this Scriptural?)
The
question is then asked whether Columba's Church in his own time
was Roman. The reasoned argument is that it was not as :-
1. It did not acknowledge the pope in the sense of accepting his
claim of supremacy. This either in ecclesiastical administration
or doctrine. (Comment: If this were so, their would have been
no Synod of Whitby in 644. ). Neither did it practice Mariolatry
(the worship of the mother of Jesus The Christ, which is to place
a human in equality with The Divine as The Supreme Being).
" St
Columba of Iona" by Lucy Menzies (first edition
1949) The Iona Community acknowledged with thanks all royalties
on this book. Page 88 described Adamnan's re-action to Rome.
The
Synod of Whitby.
www.newadvent.org/cathen/15610a.htm
A Roman Catholic Web based Encyclopedia reference.
"The
Dis-establishment of The Keltic Church by The Synod of Whitby
(644)" Advocates Library, Edinburgh.
Ref. HP1.79.5475.(1979) A drama enacting the proceedings of the
Synod.
The
Spirituality and Politics of Present Day Europe.
"The
Principality and Power of Europe" (1997).
By Adrian Hilton, paperback. Dorchester House Publications
ISBN 0951838628. This reads as make believe - I wish it were!
Difficult to come by. Listed on Amazon. When I last looked there
was one new copy and one second hand. A "wanted" notice on Amazon
may produce results. A bulk order to the publisher may
be necessary. My copy is available on loan.
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