The Revelation of Divine Love in Sixteen Showings Made to Dame Julian of Norwich (Triumph Classics) (Paperback)

~ (Author), M. L. Del Mastro (Translator)

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Text: English (translation)

Product Details

• Paperback: 214 pages
• Publisher: Liguori Publications (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892436387
• ISBN-13: 978-0892436385
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 5.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Work of amazing depth and richness, August 12, 2000

By	Elizabeth G. Melillo "gloriana" - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Julian's work is a rich combination of ascetic, sacramental, and doctrinal theology, presented with a haunting simplicity and charm. Through referring entirely to her revelations, apparently a singular incident, Julian, with obviously burning love, manages to set forth truths with great understanding and depth. Readers will miss much of this, if they read it solely as a feminist statement - her treatment of God as Mother, for example, includes references to numerous doctrinal and sacramental implications.

Superb work for anyone interested in Christian mysticism at its best.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everyone's Favorite Mystic, May 4, 2000

By	Blazer2020 (Columbia, Mo.) - See all my reviews

At the time she wrote, Julian's "showings" were not considered completely compatible with Church doctrine. However, she was not censured by the people of Norwich or the Church. She is famous for her audacity, in that she claimed her writings were as inspired as the Bible. Moreover for her specific doctrine that God is our Mother as much as he is our Father. Meaning only that his character transcends the way we think of gender and especially the roles we have attribute to it. Julian also stated that in God there is no wrath. I recommend this book to anyone reading for fun, for theological insight, or for any combination of feminist or spiritual curiosity. She was an amazing woman whose work is perpetually relevant as a religious and as a feminist text.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lady Julian's book changed my life, June 16, 2006

By	D. J. Wright (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

There have been only a few landmark books along my path but this is one of them. If you are fed up with all the misrepresentations of the nature and character of God, then read this. Lady Julian takes us into her depths of revelation as to His true nature and selfless love toward us.

Here is a brief except from the ninth showing:

"We are His bliss, we are His reward, we are His glory, we are His crown. It was a singular marvel and a thing most delightful to behold, that we are His crown. All of this is so great a joy to Jesus that for it He counts all His painful labor, His difficult passion, His cruel and shameful death, as nothing... I saw in truth that He would have died as often as He could have, and love would never let Him rest until He had done it. I looked with great diligence to learn how often He would die if He could, and in truth, the number exceeded the power of my understanding and my wits to such an extent that my reason might not and could not comprehend it or take it in. And even when He had died, or would have died, this many times, He still would count it as nothing for love, for all seems very small compared to His love."