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Author Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian.

Title Julian of Norwich and the mystical body politic of Christ / Frederick Christian Bauerschmidt.

Imprint Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1999.

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)
Series Studies in spirituality and theology ; 5
Studies in spirituality and theology ; 5.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-281) and index.
Summary Julian of Norwich and the Mystical Body Politic of Christ provides a close and historically sensitive reading of Julian's Revelation of Love that addresses the question of the relationship between our understanding of God and our vision of human community. By examining Julian's images of Christ's body, this book seeks to discern the "political" meaning of her theology. Locating these images within the context of late medieval debates over the nature and extent of divine power, the book argues that Julian presents an alternative account of divine power in which the crucified body of Christ becomes the focus and shape of divine omnipotence. This account of divine power serves as the norm of all human exercise of power, rendering the possibility of the "mystical body politic of Christ" as the exemplary form of human community. In this reading, the theological is irreducibly political and the political is irreducibly theological. As such, Julian is presented as both a theologian of the first rank and one who "imagines the political."
Contents Introduction and Acknowledgments -- 1. Imagining the political -- A. Theological politics -- B. Political theology -- C. Between the times -- 1. The metaphysics of order -- 2. The metaphysics of freedom -- 2. "I desyred a bodely sight" -- A. The humanity of Christ -- B. Bodily seeing -- 1. Three requests -- 2. Seeing Jesus -- C. Event and interpretation -- D. The only Heaven -- 1. Neither affectivity nor contemplation -- 2. God's righteousness written in the flesh of Jesus -- 3. "A feyer and delectable place" -- A. Boundaries -- 1. Bodies smooth and grotesque -- 2. Dwelling on margins -- B. The grotesque body of Christ -- 1. Defecation and degradation -- 2. From flood to drought -- 3. A body of lack: Christ our Mother -- 4. Privation and plenty -- C. Closed in the goodness of God -- 1. Dwelling in the body -- 2. The scope of the body -- D. The deformation of a persecuting society -- 4. "A contynuant laborer and an hard traveler" -- A.A shewyng full mystely -- 1. Sensus litteralis -- 2. Sensus mysticus -- B. Treasure in the earth -- 1. Reuniting substance and sensuality -- 2. Exemplarism and election -- C.A drama without footlights -- 1. Theo-drama -- 2. Lords and servants -- Conclusion: Performing the book -- Appendix: Who was julian of norwich?
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Subject Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
Jesus Christ -- Mystical body -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Jesus Christ.
Julian, of Norwich, 1343-
Christianity and politics -- History of doctrines -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Mysticism -- England -- History -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Mysticism -- Middle Ages.
England.
Chronological Term 600-1500
Genre/Form History.
Other Form: Print version: Bauerschmidt, Frederick Christian. Julian of Norwich and the mystical body politic of Christ. Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, ©1999 (DLC) 98041339 (OCoLC)39849419
ISBN 0268075719
9780268075712 (electronic bk.)
026801194X (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780268011949 (cloth ; alk. paper)