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कृतियाँ

• लगभग 1393दिव्य प्रेम के प्रकटीकरण

  मई 1373 के सोलह “दर्शन”, एक छोटे और एक लंबे पाठ में: पाप “उपयुक्त” (behovely) है, ईश्वर हमारी माता है, और सब कुशल होगा।

मत

“Revelations of Divine Love” is the earliest surviving book in English by a woman. The central problem is sin: if God is all love and all power, why does sin exist, and how can those who sin be saved? Her answer reinterprets the Church’s teaching: sin is “behovely” – fitting or necessary – because through it the soul comes to know itself and God’s mercy; there is no wrath in God; and the parable of a lord and his servant, which she pondered for twenty years, shows the fall as an accident that love repairs. “All shall be well” is not optimism but a promise she tests against her own doubts.

जीवन और संदर्भ

Julian of Norwich (1343–after 1416) is known by the name of the church in Norwich, England, where she lived as an anchoress – a recluse enclosed in a cell. In May 1373, aged thirty and seriously ill, she experienced sixteen visions of Christ. She wrote them down soon after and then, over some twenty years, composed a much longer meditation on them. Her birth name and the date of her death are unknown.

अन्य प्रमुख कृतियाँ

• Revelations of Divine Love, short text (c. 1373–1380)
• Revelations of Divine Love, long text (c. 1393 or later)