John Philip Newell

John Philip Newell (born 1953) is a Celtic teacher and author of spirituality and Celtic Christianity.

Canadian by birth, and a citizen also of Scotland, he resides with his family in Edinburgh and works on both sides of the Atlantic. In 2016 he began the School of Earth and Soul (originally called the School of Celtic Consciousness) and teaches regularly in the United States and Canada as well as leading international pilgrimage weeks on Iona in the Western Isles of Scotland.

His PhD is from the University of Edinburgh and he has authored over fifteen books, including A New Harmony, Sounds of the Eternal, The Rebirthing of God, and his latest books Sacred Earth Sacred Soul.

Newell speaks of himself as ‘a wandering teacher’ following the ancient path of many lone teachers before him in the Celtic world, ‘wandering Scots’ (or scotus vagans as they were called) seeking the wellbeing of the world. He has been described as having ‘the heart of a Celtic bard and the mind of a Celtic scholar’, combining in his teachings the poetic and the intellectual, the head as well as the heart, and spiritual awareness as well as political and ecological concern. In 2020 he relinquished his ordination as a minister of the Church of Scotland as no longer reflecting the heart of his belief in the sacredness of the earth and every human being. He continues, however, to see himself as ‘a grateful son of the Christian household’ seeking to be in relationship with the wisdom of humanity’s other great spiritual traditions.

Bibliography

Title	Year	Publisher	ISBN	Subtitles
Each Day and Each Night	1994	Wild Goose Publications	094798853X	A Weekly Cycle of Prayers from Iona in the Celtic Tradition; co-author Louise Donaldson
Celtic Prayers from Iona	1997	Paulist Press	0809104888
Listening for the Heartbeat of God	1997	Paulist Press	0809137593	A Celtic Spirituality
The Book of Creation	1999	Paulist Press	0809138999	An Introduction to Celtic Spirituality
One Foot in Eden	1999	Paulist Press	0809138697	A Celtic View of the Stages of Life
Celtic Benediction	2000	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company	0802839045	Prayers for Morning and Evening
Promptings from Paradise	2000	Paulist Press	0809139359
Sounds of the Eternal	2002	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company	0802805132	(out of print)
Echo of the Soul	2002	Morehouse Publishing	0819219084	The Sacredness of the Human Body
Shakespeare and the Human Mystery	2005	Paulist Press	080914249X
Celtic Treasure	2005	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company	080282983X	Daily Scriptures and Prayer
Christ of the Celts	2008	Jossey-Bass	0470183502	The Healing of Creation
Praying with the Earth	2011	William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company	0802866530	A Prayerbook for Peace
A New Harmony	2011	Jossey-Bass	0470554673	The Spirit, the Earth, and the Human Soul
The Rebirthing of God	2014	SkyLight Paths	1683364198	Christianity's Struggle for New Beginnings
Sacred Earth, Sacred Soul	2021	HarperOne	0063023490	Celtic Wisdom for Reawakening to What Our Souls Know and Healing the World

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