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Author Turner, Denys, 1942-

Title Julian of Norwich, theologian / Denys Turner.

Publication Info. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 262 pages)
Bibliography
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A note on Julian's text -- Providence and sin -- Sin and salvation -- Conclusion : Julian's soteriology.
Summary For centuries readers have comfortably accepted Julian of Norwich as simply a mystic. In this astute book, Denys Turner offers a new interpretation of Julian and the significance of her work. Turner argues that this fourteenth-century thinker's sophisticated approach to theological questions places her legitimately within the pantheon of other great medieval theologians, including Thomas Aquinas, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Bonaventure. Julian wrote but one work in two versions, a Short Text recording the series of visions of Jesus Christ she experienced while suffering a near-fatal illness, and a much expanded Long Text exploring the theological meaning of the ""showings"" some twenty years later. Turner addresses the apparent conflict between the two sources of Julians theology: on the one hand, her personal revelation of Gods omnipotent love, and on the other, the Churchs teachings on and her own witnessing of evil in the world that deserves punishment, even eternal punishment. Offering a fresh and elegant account of Julians response to this conflict;one that reveals its nuances, systematic character, and originalitythis book marks a new stage in the century-long rediscovery of one of the English languages greatest theological thinkers.
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Subject Julian, of Norwich, 1343- Revelations of divine love.
Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
Revelations of divine love (Julian, of Norwich)
Sin -- Christianity.
Sin -- Christianity.
Salvation -- Christianity.
Salvation -- Christianity.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Turner, Denys, 1942- Julian of Norwich, theologian. New Haven : Yale University Press, ©2011 9780300163919 (DLC) 2010049526 (OCoLC)670481522
ISBN 9780300164688 (electronic book)
0300164688 (electronic book)
1283096145
9781283096140
9780300163919 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0300163916 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780300192551 (paperback)
030019255X (paperback)