Revelations of Divine Love

work by Julian of Norwich

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Christian mysticism

  • mosaic: Christianity
    In Christianity: Western Catholic Christianity

    recluse Julian of Norwich, whose Revelations of Divine Love is unsurpassed in English mystical literature. Julian’s meditations on the inner meaning of her revelations of the crucified Christ express the mystical solidarity of all humanity in the Redeemer, who is conceived of as a nurturing mother.

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discussed in biography

  • In Julian of Norwich

    …after 1416) celebrated mystic whose Revelations of Divine Love (or Showings) is generally considered one of the most remarkable documents of medieval religious experience. She spent the latter part of her life as a recluse at St. Julian’s Church, Norwich.

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English literature

  • Beowulf
    In English literature: Religious prose

    …which she wrote in her Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love, one of the foremost works of English spirituality by the standards of any age. Rather different religious experiences went into the making of The Book of Margery Kempe (c. 1432–36), the extraordinary autobiographical record of a bourgeoise woman, dictated to…

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