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Julian of Norwich A Book of Showings (1370s) - Coggle Diagram
Julian of Norwich
A Book of Showings
(1370s)
What is the relationship between the body and the soul?
"With him I desired to suffer, living in my deadly body, as God would give me grace." (415).
"God sent me a bodily sickness" (414): allows Julian to frame our bodies as always already under God's care;
"I trusted in God of his mercy" (414) -- God has a plan, defo, and also I can't want death because God gave me that,.
I want to suffer? She's straight up dying (paralyzed from the waist down, losing sight, no "recovery" in sight.
"It lastesth and ever shall for God loveth it; and so hath all thing being by the love of God" (416) -- it reaffirms LOVE is central to this world
If we're made in the image of god, and the body is bad, but he doesn't make bad things, so like...
how do we think about The Trinity?
god the father, son, and holy spirit--three different people in one
"The trinity is our maker, the trinity is our our keeper, the Trinity is our everlasting lover" (415)
What are the consequences of framing sin and flesh?
this is wildly masochistic and also opens up some sexualities
suffering is necessary and it's holy/a mode of devotion.
the logic of aligning faith with health; if you're sick, it's God's plan, if you're ailing, it's God's plan
pain and sickness as an "epistemic resource" (also, she was healed)- also, it allowed her to move/remove herself
it's complicated: this portrays religion in a very beautiful way (and pretty simple cause Love), but the also the ideas of power and subordination is rough.
that we all need to suffer is...
ok, but is my suffering enough?
she literally incarcerated herself, so "devotion" is like...extreme
where does this place women's bodily autonomy and free will?
Anchoress: it seems like a lot. it's HEAVY devotion; removes earthly distractions and stuff; you literally have no one else to talk to but God
the tradition of affective piety: we use the physical to jump start thinking about the metaphysical
Christ's Passion and Incarnation: (aka the two moments that insist on Jesu's humanness)
"Lady Saint Mary" and birthing God? (415-6): a
Christ as mother: takes motherhood out of the body and as a framework of care?
what if as a consequence we're dismissing or devaluing women?
Jesus is our Mother? (419-20)
if God is all, then he is father and mother (sure) (420):
"three manner of helodings of motherhood in God" 420): "motherhood in our kind making", "taking of our kind" (positions mothers and women in the care roles and positions of power