THE SACRAMENTAL VIEW OF THE WORLD IN THE OLD ENGLISH WISDOM POETRY

Probing the relationship between Old English wisdom poetry and the Christian faith, I suggest that Old English wisdom poetry demonstrates a sacramental view of the world. After a short biographical description of my transition from a Baptist to an Anglican church, where I gained a new-found appreciation of the sacraments, I examine the sacramental view of nature in Old English wisdom poems such as Maxims I and II as well as in Ælfric‘s Sermo de sacrificio in die pascae.