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Religious experience and interpretation : memory as the path to the knowledge of God in Julian of Norwich's Showings

Title: Religious experience and interpretation : memory as the path to the knowledge of God in Julian of Norwich's Showings / Wai Man Yuen.
Author: Yuen, Wai Man, 1958-
Publication: New York : Peter Lang, c2003.

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Description

vi, 242 p.; 24 cm.

Summary

"Religious Experience and Interpretation uses Augustine's theory of memory to illuminate the differences between the two versions of Julian of Norwich's Showings and to demonstrate that Julian's experience of the sixteen showings and their theological understanding are the result of her active memory.
This comparative study of the two texts shows how the triune mind - memory, understanding and will - works interactively in the process of recollection so as to actualize the memory-images of the visions as the knowledge of God. Based on Julian's work, this book shows how human memory unites religious experience and interpretation and reveals the redeemability of time in religious experience."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Feminist critical studies in religion and culture ; v. 1

Uniform Title

Feminist critical studies in religion and culture ; v. 1.

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Contents

Introduction: The Place of Memory in Julian's Visionary Experience and its Interpretation -- 1. Augustine's Theory of Memory -- The Nature of Memory -- The Triune Mind and the Process of Recollection -- The Theory of Divine Illumination -- Memory and Time -- Conclusion -- 2. Religious Milieu in Late Medieval England -- Religious Milieu in the Late Medieval Period -- Women Mysticism and Women Mystics in the Late Medieval Period -- Religious Milieu in Fourteenth Century England -- Religious Women in Late Medieval England -- Conclusion -- 3. Julian of Norwich's Life and Work -- Julian of Norwich as an Anchoress -- Julian of Norwich as a Woman Visionary -- Julian of Norwich as a Simple Woman -- Julian of Norwich as a Woman Writer and the Relationship Between the Two Texts of the Showings -- 4. The Re-interpretation of Julian's Visionary Experience by Using Augustine's Theory of Memory -- A Recapitulation of Augustine's Theory of Memory --
Julian's Modes of Vision and Augustine's Theory of Vision -- The Process of Recollection -- Three Stages of Understanding -- The Influence of Augustinian Theology upon Julian's Theological Interpretation of her Revelations -- The Intellectual Visions of God, Sin and Salvation and Union -- Final Remarks: Time and the Showings.

ISBN

0820458325 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2002069383

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Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries