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The Revelations of Divine Love is a book of Christian mystical
devotions written by Julian of Norwich. It is believed to be the
first published book in the English language to be written by a
woman. At the age of thirty, 13 May 1373, Julian was struck with a
serious illness. As she prayed and prepared for death, she received
a series of sixteen visions on the Passion of Christ and the Virgin
Mary. Saved from the brink of death, Julian of Norwich dedicated
her life to solitary prayer and the contemplation of the visions
she had received. She wrote a short account of her visions probably
soon after the event. About twenty or thirty years after her
illness, near the end of the fourteenth century, she wrote down her
visions and her understanding of them. This is the Grace Warrack
translation that brought this great work the recognition it
desrved.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1901 Edition.
"Revelations of Divine Love" is a text of Julian of Norwich's dream
visions that she had when she was near death. Then, after being
miraculously healed, Julian of Norwich dedicated the rest of her
life to writing her series of sixteen visions for all to read and
understand. During her life, Norwich had suffered through three
different bouts of the Black Death. Julian of Norwich remained
optimistic in her faith, though; she denied that the plagues were
God's punishment on the wicked. Instead, she believed that God was
incapable of punishment. In her eyes, every person was worthy of
God's salvation, and Hell was not a place of banishment and
torture. She thought that God's true intentions of Hell were yet to
be discovered. In "Revelations of Divine Love," Julian of Norwich
extrapolates on her beliefs and describes the visions she received
about the Passion of the Christ as well as the Virgin Mary. In
addition to being a truly inspiring work, it is also hailed as the
first book written in English by a woman. Regardless if it is read
for its historical significance or its religious message,
"Revelations of Divine Love" is a truly inspiring text of Christian
Mysticism.
1901. Without any special study of the literature of mysticism for
purposes of comparison, in reading Julian's book one is struck by a
few characteristics wherein it differs from many other mystical
writings, as well as by qualities that belong to most or all of
that general designation. Julian does not set out to teach methods
of any kind for the gradual drawing near of man to God, but to
record and show forth a revelation, granted once, of God's actual
nearness to the soul, and for this revelation she herself had been
prepared by the stirring of her conscience, her love and her
understanding, in a word of her faith.
The Showings of Divine Love is a book of Christian mystical
devotions written by Julian of Norwich. It is believed to be the
first published book in the English language to be written by a
woman. At the age of thirty, 13 May 1373, Julian was struck with a
serious illness. As she prayed and prepared for death, she received
a series of sixteen visions on the Passion of Christ and the Virgin
Mary. Saved from the brink of death, Julian of Norwich dedicated
her life to solitary prayer and the contemplation of the visions
she had received. She wrote a short account of her visions probably
soon after the event. About twenty or thirty years after her
illness, near the end of the fourteenth century, she wrote down her
visions and her understanding of them. This is the Grace Warrack
translation that brought this great work the recognition it
deserved.
1901. Without any special study of the literature of mysticism for
purposes of comparison, in reading Julian's book one is struck by a
few characteristics wherein it differs from many other mystical
writings, as well as by qualities that belong to most or all of
that general designation. Julian does not set out to teach methods
of any kind for the gradual drawing near of man to God, but to
record and show forth a revelation, granted once, of God's actual
nearness to the soul, and for this revelation she herself had been
prepared by the stirring of her conscience, her love and her
understanding, in a word of her faith.
1901. Without any special study of the literature of mysticism for
purposes of comparison, in reading Julian's book one is struck by a
few characteristics wherein it differs from many other mystical
writings, as well as by qualities that belong to most or all of
that general designation. Julian does not set out to teach methods
of any kind for the gradual drawing near of man to God, but to
record and show forth a revelation, granted once, of God's actual
nearness to the soul, and for this revelation she herself had been
prepared by the stirring of her conscience, her love and her
understanding, in a word of her faith.
Without any special study of the literature of mysticism for
purposes of comparison, in reading Julian's book one is struck by a
few characteristics wherein it differs from many other mystical
writings, as well as by qualities that belong to most or all of
that general designation. Julian does not set out to teach methods
of any kind for the gradual drawing near of man to God, but to
record and show forth a revelation, granted once, of God's actual
nearness to the soul, and for this revelation she herself had been
prepared by the stirring of her conscience, her love and her
understanding, in a word of her faith.
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