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Julian of Norwich "A Book of Showings" - Coggle Diagram
Julian of Norwich "A Book of Showings"
The Trinity
"For the Trinity is God, God is the Trinity. The Trinity is our maker, the Trinity is our keeper, the Trinity is our everlasting lover, the Trinity is endless joy and our bliss, by our Lord Jesu Christ, and in our Lord Jesu Christ" (415).
Julian attempts to articulate what the Trinity is. This is a concept difficult for lay people in the fourteenth century to grasp.
Understandings of the Trinity and other church teachings are usually rooted in the physical to connect. to the spiritual.
Virgin Mary
God the Father creates Mary without sin. Through her, Jesus the Son is born. This creates a circle/cycle similar to the Trinity.
"she beheld her God, that is her maker, marvelling with great reverence that he would be born of her that was a simple creature of his making" (416).
Jesus Christ's Humanity
"for above her is nothing that is made but the blessed manhood of Christ, as to my sight" (416).
Emphasis on Christ's humanity makes it easier to connect spiritually to him.
Body Horror/ Gore
"And in all that time that he showed this that I have said in ghostly sight, I saw the bodily sight lasting of the plenteous bleeding of the head" (417).
"The great drops of blood fell down fro under the garland like pellets seeming as it had come out like veins" (417).
Suffering
Julian of Norwich is an anchoress. She lives in a cell separated from the world. No worldly distractions.
Her separation/ suffering gives her more time to think on her relationship to God
"Then I was holpen to be set upright, underset with help, for to have the more freedom of my heart to be at God's will, and thinking on God while my life lasted" (414).
She suffers as an approximation of the suffering Jesus endured.
"And when I was thirty and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness. in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of holy church, and went not to have liven til day" (414).
"Thus I endured till day, and by then was my body dead from the middles downward, as to my feeling" (414).
Gender
Jesus (and the Trinity as a whole) as mother
"And thus in our making God almighty is our kindly father, and god all wisdom is our kindly mother, with the love and the goodness of the Holy Ghost, which is all one God, one Lord" (419).
God is everything, all roles.