At the risk of adding too much conversation at one time.....  I'm curious about what the Celtic Christian view of Revelations and the End Times is.

I'm reading a parallel commetary of Revelations that compares the Historisist, the Peterist, the Futurist, and the Spritualist/Idealist view of every verse of Revelations.  It's the most balanced, least histerical, presentation that I've ever seen..

Your comparison of Catholic/Protestant orientation and Celtic orientation reminds me of a comparison I read between Native American and Western orientation:  that the West (and Judaism) sees history progressing linearly to a future climax where as Native Americans see history as moving is cycles and the important thing is aligning with and maintaining the cycles.  So they didn't have much in the way of apocalyptic literature until after the whites came and took over; then some religious traditions built up around a day when God would intervene to end the hardship brought by the whites and peace and wellbeing would return.  (I'd have to hunt down my book to be more specific.)  I guess whenever a group feels oppressed or opposed they are more likely to look to an apocalypse for a solution.

Briefly here are what the approaches are about:

Historicist:  that Revelation symbolically maps out the course of history (at least of the church) from John's time to the end.  Some of the symbolism fits impressively with historic events like the Gothic invasions or Turkish invasions, but toward modern times things get a lot less obvious.  This group also tends to equate the Papacy with the anti-christ.

Preterist:  They think all (or most) of Revelations pertains to the fall of Jerusalem in AD 70 with Christ's "coming" to be understood in the same way as God would sometimes say in the Old Testament that He was coming in judgment on some country.  At first I thought that was too unimportant of a subject to warrant a whole prophetic book; but if I consider how it was really and truly the end of the Old Covenant (and the sacrifices and temple worship of the Old Covenant) and sort of a verification that the New Covenant was in effect - then I can see their point.

Futurists:  This is mostly the "Left Behind"/"Late, Great Planet Earth" group  although not all futurists give Jews such a big role in there understand of what will happen or believe that the rapture will remove Christians before the tribulation.

Spiritualist:  They see the events as things that occur in every generation (usually as punishment) and the main message is that God is still always in control.

I wonder if the difference between the religion of Western Civilization (and I'd even include Islam in that) and Indigenous cultures is the difference between the worldview of Bronze Age people and Iron Age people.

And that makes me wonder about the difference between 'Civilized' China (even hundreds of years ago) and Indigenous China.