Julian of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love
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- Synopsis
- From the book: The showings were so compelling and so rich in meaning that Julian understood them to come directly from God and to be messages not just to herself but to all Christians. This led her to put them in writing and to convey her sense of their significance, as it was revealed in the course of many years of meditation, renewed by 'flashes of illumination and touches, I hope, of the same spirit which was shown in them all' (chapter 65). One supplementary showing came 'fifteen years and more later' - that is, about 1388 - and this she recounts in the final chapter of LT: [long text] it was that God's meaning in the whole series of experiences from 1373 was no more nor less than love. Julian wrote for private readers; they rather than listeners would have needed the list of contents in chapter 1 of LT and the summaries heading the other chapters (if these are authorial). Her target audience was initially 'all men and women who wish to lead the contemplative life' (ST [short text] chapter 4), but in LT she drops this limitation and seems to envisage a broader public of devout laypeople - a public that was on the increase in her lifetime. Since her work was adapted into modern English in 1901, her readership has expanded to far greater numbers than could have known it in earlier times. Both texts are included.
- Copyright:
- 1998
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 195 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780140446739
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 11/28/06
- Copyrighted By:
- Elizabeth Spearing
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Religion and Spirituality
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- Proofread By:
- Lena
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
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