'Holy, holier, holiest'
Subtitle: the sacred topography of the early medieval Irish church
By: David H. Jenkins
Series: Studia traditionis theologiae -- 4; Studia traditionis theologiae -- 4.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9782503533162
Subjects: Church buildings; Monasteries; Influence; Church history; Temple of Jerusalem (Jerusalem); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-210) and index.
Table of contents: title: The religious topography of the early medieval Irish church : an historiographical perspective. Enclosure as an expression of an ascetic ideal ; Monastic hegemony : a revisionist critique ; Enclosure as an expression of power and influence ; Enclosure as an expression of sacred identity ; Enclosure in a non-Irish context ; Conclusion; title: Slab-shrines and oratories : the anatomy of religious settlement within the early medieval Irish church. The anatomy of settlement : an archaeological context ; The anatomy of settlement : a literary context ; Conclusion; title: From the tabernacle to the New Jersualem : an exploration of a biblical hermeneutic for the topography of religious settlement. The Bible and the sanctification of space ; The tabernacle and the temple : a textual depiction of sacred topography ; The temple motif within patristic exegesis ; The temple motif within early Irish exegesis ; Conclusion; title: And was Jerusalem builded here? : the making of a religious landscape. A Scriptural 'canon of planning' ; An Eremitic inheritance ; An Eremitic paradigm? ; The creation of a religious landscape ; Conclusion.