A profound exploration of the Celtic spiritual tradition, and particularly of the Celtic visionary imagination.Connecting this with both the Platonic and Islamic traditions, this book suggests a "lost category" of existence which would account for the pos

Angels Keep Their Ancient Places: Reflections on Celtic Spirituality

Religion & Spirituality

O'Donoghue, Noel

Christian Books & Bibles

T&T Clark

Draws together a lifetime's study and experience of Celtic spirituality, to present the resources of Celtic Christianity in a living unity and to open up new horizons.

Mountain Behind the Mountain: Aspects of the Celtic Tradition

Bloomsbury T&T Clark

One of the most respected and adventurous of writers on the mystical traditions of Christianity, himself a Carmelite, Noel Dermot O'Donoghue has gathered together his definitive reflections on the three great mystical doctors of the Catholic Church: St. Teresa of Avila ("Women of Vision"), St. John of the Cross ("Man of Fire") and St Therese of Lisieux ("Child of the Little Way"). These inter-related and inter-woven essays are the mature fruit of a lifetime, written in the richly poetic way that readers have come to associate with this modern master of Celtic Christianity.

Adventures in Prayer: A Carmelite Trilogy

Burns & Oates

One of the most respected and adventurous of writers on the mystical traditions of Christianity, himself a Carmelite, Noel Dermot O'Donoghue has gathered together his definitive reflections on the three great mystical doctors of the Catholic Church: St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross and St Therese of Lisieux. These inter-related essays are the fruit of a lifetime, written in O'Donoghue's richly poetic way. Praise for O'Donoghue's book Heaven in Ordinarie 'Searching and moving... combines the sensibility to language and feeling of a poet with an astonishing intellectual boldness... a wonderful and visionary account of orthodox Christianity.' Rowan Williams

Adventures in Prayer: Reflection on St Teresa of Avila, St John of the Cross and St Therese of Lisieux

An important new study on spirituality. O'Donoghue discusses three great Carmelite mystics and rediscovers the Carmelite vision for our new age.

Mystics for our time: Carmelite meditations for a new age

M. Glazier