The Celtic Church in Scotland Being An Introduction to the History of the Chris
The Celtic Church in Scotland Being An Introduction to the History of the Chris
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204 THE CELTIC CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.
bid defiance to the laws both of the Church and the State. " On the continent of Europe things were no better. Helyot, with special reference to the eleventh century, declares that discipline among the canons was relaxed to such a point that they were simply "overwhelmed in the sink of universal incon- tinence. " ^ There is no reason whatever for supposing that the possessing wives on the part of the Scottish Culdees, if such be the case, was anything differen...t from such connections in England and abroad. It was not, as Mylne would suggest, an approved survival of the Eastern discipline which permitted marriage to the secular clergy, but simply an outcome of the general decay of ecclesiastical discipHne in the West.^ Even after the thorough investigation made by Reeves, the question of the origin of the Culdees remains obscure. The researches of this scholar point to the fact, which is abundantly evident in the Irish Church and the Columban Church of Scotland, that the busy life of the monastic communities came by some to be regarded as a state less perfect than the life of retired devotion which might be found in a " desert, " a name sometimes, as we have seen, applied to a cell removed only a short way from the general buildings of the monastery.
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204 THE CELTIC CHURCH IN SCOTLAND.
bid defiance to the laws both of the Church and the State. " On the continent of Europe things were no better. Helyot, with special reference to the eleventh century, declares that discipline among the canons was relaxed to such a point that they were simply "overwhelmed in the sink of universal incon- tinence. " ^ There is no reason whatever for supposing that the possessing wives on the part of the Scottish Culdees, if such be the case, was anything differen...t from such connections in England and abroad. It was not, as Mylne would suggest, an approved survival of the Eastern discipline which permitted marriage to the secular clergy, but simply an outcome of the general decay of ecclesiastical discipHne in the West.^ Even after the thorough investigation made by Reeves, the question of the origin of the Culdees remains obscure. The researches of this scholar point to the fact, which is abundantly evident in the Irish Church and the Columban Church of Scotland, that the busy life of the monastic communities came by some to be regarded as a state less perfect than the life of retired devotion which might be found in a " desert, " a name sometimes, as we have seen, applied to a cell removed only a short way from the general buildings of the monastery.
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