Julian of Norwich wrote A Revelation of Love, a short text which shows the immediacy of her experience, and a long text which shows 20 years of reflection. This book offers a reading of these texts and addresses the relationship between the understanding of God and her vision of human community.
Julian of Norwich wrote A Revelation of Love, a short text which shows the immediacy of her experience, and a long text which shows 20 years of reflec...
In May 1373, the English mystic Julian of Norwich was healed of a serious illness after experiencing a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin and of Christ s suffering. Her account, "A Revelation of Love," is considered one of the most remarkable documents of medieval religious experience.In "Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ," Frederick Bauerschmidt provides a close and historically sensitive reading of Julian s "Revelation of Love" that addresses the relationship between our understanding of God and our vision of human community. By locating Julian s images of...
In May 1373, the English mystic Julian of Norwich was healed of a serious illness after experiencing a series of visions of the Blessed Virgin and ...
Written and edited by leading scholars in the field, this collection explores Aquinas' continuing relevance to contemporary theology and his ability to enlighten inter- and intra-faith dialogue.
Explores Aquinas' continuing relevance to contemporary theology.
Looks at how Aquinas illuminates dialogue both among Christians and between Christians and non-Christians today.
Written by both scholars of Aquinas and those who are actively involved in ecumenical and inter-religious dialogue.
Topics range...
Written and edited by leading scholars in the field, this collection explores Aquinas' continuing relevance to contemporary theology and his ability t...
The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Catholicism, written by a range of distinguished and experienced Catholic writers.
Engages its readers in an informed and informative conversation about Roman Catholic life and thought
Embraces the local and the global, the past and the present, life and the afterlife, and a broad range of institutions and activities
Considers both what is distinctive about Catholic life and thought, and how Catholicism...
The Blackwell Companion to Catholicism offers an extensive survey of the history, doctrine, practices, and global circumstances of Roman Cathol...
Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the western tradition. But what has often not been sufficiently attended to is the fact that he carried out his theological and philosophical labours as a part of his vocation as a Dominican friar, dedicated to a life of preaching and the care of souls. Fererick Christian Bauerschmidt places Aquinas's thought within the context of that vocation, and argues that his views on issues of God, creation, Christology, soteriology, and the Christian life...
Thomas Aquinas is widely recognized as one of history's most significant Christian theologians and one of the most powerful philosophical minds of the...
