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The Revelation of Divine Love in Sixteen Showings Made to Dame Julian of Norwich
M.L. del Mastro, Julian of Norwich
3.93 AVERAGE
122 reviews for:
The Revelation of Divine Love in Sixteen Showings Made to Dame Julian of Norwich
M.L. del Mastro, Julian of Norwich
3.93 AVERAGE
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"When Adam fell, God’s son fell; because of the true union made in heaven, God’s son could not leave Adam, for by Adam I understand all men. Adam fell from life to death into the valley of this wretched world, and after that into hell. God’s son fell with Adam into the valley of the Virgin’s womb (and she was the fairest daughter of Adam), in order to free Adam from guilt in heaven and in earth; and with his great power he fetched him out of hell."
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Medieval Lit: sometimes you are so cool, and other times you make me want to stab my eyes out with a quill pen.
Julian of Norwich falls into the category of written dream vision, of which there seems to have been jillions in the middle ages. Nobody just had regular dreams, oh no; they had religiously significant dreams that must be recorded for all to read about and for professors today to torture their students with. Thanks, Julian. Thanks a bunch.
In all seriousness, I appreciate her sincerity and obvious depth of belief. Julian was an anchoritess, meaning she chose to be walled into a small cell attached to a church to have the time and peace to contemplate her visions and write them down. Pretty serious jazz. Her images and discussion of God as mother are theologically sound, even if she does carry them a little too far (kinda vampiric with the whole drinking the blood of Christ thing). I also liked the line "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Apparently T.S. Eliot did too, because he put it in his poetry. So I guess you're not all bad, Julian...but I just can't bring myself to like most dream visions. I'll stick to the Dream of the Rood, at least that's in Old English.
Julian of Norwich falls into the category of written dream vision, of which there seems to have been jillions in the middle ages. Nobody just had regular dreams, oh no; they had religiously significant dreams that must be recorded for all to read about and for professors today to torture their students with. Thanks, Julian. Thanks a bunch.
In all seriousness, I appreciate her sincerity and obvious depth of belief. Julian was an anchoritess, meaning she chose to be walled into a small cell attached to a church to have the time and peace to contemplate her visions and write them down. Pretty serious jazz. Her images and discussion of God as mother are theologically sound, even if she does carry them a little too far (kinda vampiric with the whole drinking the blood of Christ thing). I also liked the line "All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well." Apparently T.S. Eliot did too, because he put it in his poetry. So I guess you're not all bad, Julian...but I just can't bring myself to like most dream visions. I'll stick to the Dream of the Rood, at least that's in Old English.
If you're interested in the only writings of a woman recluse that're known to have survived, and to watch a woman call Christ a Mother and struggle with whether sin really can exist or not - it's not exactly light reading but it is interesting reading. Not gonna lie, it's a good bedtime book - knocks me out in five pages flat unless I'm reading it out loud - but I appreciate it for its historical significance and theological takes. If you can read past the archaic speech, this really is an encouraging piece about God's everlasting love and devotion to mankind, diminishes sin as an irrevocably conscious, rebellious act, and yes the Jesus is our Mother thing is pretty cool.
If that's not your thing, learn a little bout the history around it and read the cliffnotes.
If that's not your thing, learn a little bout the history around it and read the cliffnotes.
This book single-handedly made me wonder if I should convert to Catholicism.
I'm still a Calvinist, but dang, this was good.
I'm still a Calvinist, but dang, this was good.
challenging
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
reflective
a classic for a reason. took some time but wow. excited to re read it at some point!!
Christian mysticism let's goooooooooo!
Julian is fascinating to me - she was an anchoress (lived the end of her life in solitude in a single cell for the sake of contemplating and reflecting on the goodness and mystery of God), and experienced intense revelations which she spent the rest of her life thinking of and explaining through her writing. She gets repetitive, but the sections on Jesus as Mother were so so so good. God our Mother isn't a new-age hippie idea, folks!
Julian is fascinating to me - she was an anchoress (lived the end of her life in solitude in a single cell for the sake of contemplating and reflecting on the goodness and mystery of God), and experienced intense revelations which she spent the rest of her life thinking of and explaining through her writing. She gets repetitive, but the sections on Jesus as Mother were so so so good. God our Mother isn't a new-age hippie idea, folks!
challenging
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced