In Our Time: Religion · BBC Radio 4

Julian of Norwich

November 16, 2023·50 min·5 clips
Julian saw Christ's side wound as a fair, delectable place large enough for all saved humanity to rest in.
This episode explores the life and visions of Julian of Norwich, a 14th-century anchoress and mystic. Experts discuss her Revelations of Divine Love, her radical theology of God as love, and her enduring legacy as the first named woman writer in English. The conversation covers her anchoress lifestyle, mystical experiences, and how her work challenges medieval religious norms.

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A careful, luminous portrait of a medieval visionary who made tenderness a theology.

Julian of Norwich emerges as a late-14th-century visionary whose Revelations of Divine Love binds suffering, theology, and tenderness into a single body of thought.

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You want Julian of Norwich's visions explained without losing their strangeness.

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