![]() ![]() ![]() If she emphasizes her ignorance, describing herself as ‘a woman ignorant, weak and frail’ (ST chapter 6), this is likely to have been both out of genuine humility and so as to avoid her contemporaries’ unease with female learning, especially in theological matters.” - A.C. Julian is manifestly a woman of exceptional intelligence, and she shows not just an understanding of theology, the province learned male clerics, but a capacity for powerful new theological thought moreover, her prose, while owing much to speech, is distinctive and distinguished. 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. ![]() Source: via “Julian of Norwich is the first writer in English who can be identified with certainty as a woman. Apparently at the point of death from a severe illness, for which she had earlier prayed as a means to be ‘purged by he mercy of God and afterwards to live more to God’s glory’ (chapter 2), she received a series of ‘showings’. Julian of Norwich (1342 – c.1416) Julian of Norwich (1342-c.1416), author of Revelations of Divine Love. ![]()
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