TY - BOOK AU - Baker,Denise Nowakowski TI - Julian of Norwich's ""Showings"": From Vision to Book T2 - Princeton Legacy Library SN - 9781400863914 AV - BV4831.J83 U1 - 242 20 PY - 2014/// CY - Princeton PB - Princeton University Press KW - Julian, KW - Revelations of divine love (Julian, of Norwich) KW - fast KW - Mysticism KW - England KW - History KW - Middle Ages, 600-1500 KW - RELIGION / History KW - bisacsh KW - Middle Ages KW - RELIGION / Christian Life / Devotional KW - RELIGION / Devotional KW - Electronic books N1 - List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER 1; Affective Spirituality and the Genesis of A Book of Showings ; CHAPTER 2; From Visualization to Vision: Meditation and the Bodily Showings ; CHAPTER 3; ""Alle Shalle Be Wele"": The Theodicy of Juliam Of Norwich ; CHAPTER 4; The Parable of the Lord and Servant and the Doctrine of Original Sin ; CHAPTER 5; Reconceiving the Imago Dei: The Motherhood of Jesus and the Ideology of the Self ; CHAPTER 6 ; Re-Visions and A Book of Showings ; CONCLUSION; Notes ; Works Cited; Index N2 - The first woman known to have written in English, the fourteenth-century mystic Julian of Norwich has inspired generations of Christians with her reflections on the ""motherhood"" of Jesus, and her assurance that, despite evil, ""all shall be well."" In this book, Denise Baker reconsiders Julian not only as an eloquent and profound visionary but also as an evolving, sophisticated theologian of great originality. Focusing on Julian's Book of Showings, in which the author records a series of revelations she received during a critical illness in May 1373, Baker provides the first histor UR - http://public.eblib.com/choice/publicfullrecord.aspx?p=1700186 UR - http://www.myilibrary.com?id=629719 UR - http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7ztxbt UR - http://www.degruyter.com/doi/book/10.1515/9781400863914 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=790879 ER -