-I have been reading Lady Julian of Norwich, - declares C.S. Lewis in a letter to his former pupil, the Benedictine mystic Bede Griffiths. -A dangerous book, clearly. I'm glad I didn't read it much earlier.- Thomas Merton wrote simply, -There can be no doubt that Julian is the greatest of the English mystics.-
Few texts have had held such interest or been the object of such enduring devotion as has Julian of Norwich's 14th-century classic A Revelation of Love. This great work -- along with The Cloud of Unknowing and Teresa of Avila's The Interior Castle -- form the...