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Creating Communion: The Theology of the Constitutions of the Church
Published in Paperback by New City Press (2003)
Authors: John J. Markey and Thomas O'Meara
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Creating Communion:Theology of the Constitutionsof theChurch
As a theology student I have had Father Markey as a professor. He is brilliant and anything that he would have to say or write about the church will be well thought out, grounded in sound doctrine, and deeply informative. Read this book! Know the Constitutional documents of our church! Be an informed parishioner!


History and Topography of Ireland
Published in Hardcover by Dufour Editions (1997)
Authors: Cambrensis Giraldus, Giraldus Cambrensis, and John J. O'Meara
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Interesting but flawed medieval account of Ireland
I found the chapters relating ot the topography of Ireland to be seriously flawed and containing inaccurate descriptions of the rivers and areas of Ireland. However it does give a very good idea of the mindset of the early Norman invaders in their conquest of Ireland and offers some to moder day readers humourous rhetorical accounts of native Irish tribal behaviour.

Fascinating
Have you ever seen a medieval map? People had only the vaguest idea of the world they lived in - and when men such as Gerald of Wales set out to gather information they very often had to rely on what local people told them (as did Herodotus over 1000 years earlier). So of course Gerald's History and Topography of Ireland is going to be riddled with factual errors - if you want to find out about the history and geography of Ireland you should look at modern maps, produced by satellites, and modern histories, written by scholars with hundreds of thousands of documents at their fingertips. Books written in the eleventh century tell you what people thought THEN, in the eleventh century, and are as such fascinating journeys into the early medieval mindset. Myths mingle with facts as the locals tell Gerald about things that matter to them, and really brings home history - in a way that reading of battles and kings doesn't. It tells you about daily lives and what people thought - we are really quite amazingly lucky that books such as these have survived a thousand years to tell us what life was like then.


From Augustine to Eriugena: Essays on Neoplatonism and Christianity in Honor of John O'Meara
Published in Hardcover by Catholic Univ of Amer Pr (1991)
Authors: F.X. Martin and J.A. Richmond
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Iohannis Scotti Eriugenae Periphyseon (De Diuisione Naturae): Liber Quartus (Scriptores Latini Hiberniae)
Published in Hardcover by Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies (1995)
Authors: Edouard A. Jeauneau, John J. O'Meara, and I.P. Sheldon-Williams
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The Mind of Eriugena
Published in Textbook Binding by Rowman & Littlefield (1971)
Author: John J. O'Meara
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Periphyseon: Division of Nature
Published in Paperback by Dumbarton Oaks Center Studies (1987)
Authors: I. P. Sheldon-Williams and John J O Meara
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Voyage of Saint Brendan: "Journey to the Promised Land"
Published in Paperback by Dufour Editions (01 January, 1981)
Author: John J. O'Meara
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The Young Augustine: The Growth of St. Augustine's Mind Up to His Conversion
Published in Paperback by Alba House (2001)
Author: John J. O'Meara
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