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The thirst of God : contemplating God's love with three women mystics /
To those seeking a more open, progressive approach to Christian faith, the Christian past can sometimes seem like a desert, an empty space devoid of encouragement or example. Yet in the latter years of the Middle Ages a quiet flowering of a more accessible, positive approach to Christian belief took...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Louisville, Kentucky :
Westminster John Knox Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 5050 Part 1. Contemplating love with three women mystics. "Serve nobly ... and fear nothing else" : a door opens and closes ; reigniting practices of compassion ; I must give my bride, holy Christianity, a new cloak : Mechthild of Magdeburg ; Obey no created thing except love : Marguerite Porete ; I saw no wrath anywhere : Julian of Norwich
- Part 2. Lady love and mother Christ : three women's spirituality of compassion. "Her God-hunting heart" : theology and the spirituality of desire ; "I have desired you since the world's beginning" : divine power and mystery ; "The son of God robbed me of my strictest justice" : Christ and salvation ; "A virile vassal in battle" : Mechthild's guide to ethical practice ; "Love overmastered me" : reading Marguerite's book ; "The divine school is held with mouth closed" : reason, virtue, and love ; "This gift slays my thoughts" : divine love and divine emptiness
- "Who shall teach me what I need to know?" : fall and redemption in Julian's vision ; Mother, father, spouse : Julian and the holy trinity ; The fairest face in heaven : Julian's passion
- Conclusion : delivered from captivity : contemplative women in the twenty-first century.