A short clip about "Celtic Christianity", not the ancient Church organizations in the Celtic lands, but rather the modern phenomenon.
Proponents of *this* Celtic Christianity are often "inclusive", pro-ecology and feminist. They want to believe that there was an independent Celtic Church during the Early Middle Ages, different from the Roman Church.
Not so, argues the theologian/historian interviewed in the clip above. The liturgical language of the Church in the British Isles was Latin, and it always recognized the Pope as the Patriarch of the West. The two most important contributions of the "Celtic Church" to Christendom were a codification of the canon law and a penitentiary system. In other words, the Celtic Christians were just as legalist and sin-obsessed as the Roman ditto!
Yet, it´s precisely this kind of Christianity the modern new agey "Celtic Christians" want to get away from...
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