Julian of Norwich's Showings : from vision to book / Denise Nowakowski Baker.

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Baker, Denise Nowakowski, 1946-

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text

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computer

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online resource

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9781400863914
1400863910

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Julian of Norwich's ""Showings"" : From Vision to Book.DDC classification:

242 20

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BV4831.J83 B34 1994eb

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Contents:

Introduction -- Affective spirituality and the genesis of A Book of Showings -- From visualization to vision : meditation and the bodly showings -- "Alle shalle be Wele" : the theodicy of Julian of Norwich -- The parable of the lord and servant and the doctrine of original sin -- Reconceiving the Imago Dei : the motherhood of Jesus and the ideology of the self -- Re-Visions and A Book of Showings.

Summary: The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the ""motherhood"" of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, ""all shall be well."" In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great originality. Focusing on Julian's Book of Showings, in which the author records a series of revelations she received during a critical illness in May 1373, Baker provides the first histor.

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The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the ""motherhood"" of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, ""all shall be well."" In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great originality. Focusing on Julian's Book of Showings, in which the author records a series of revelations she received during a critical illness in May 1373, Baker provides the first histor.

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