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♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich (..
🕑 Added 2023-02-10 12:03:32 +0000 UTC ♀️ Feminist Friday ♀️ Julian of Norwich Julian of Norwich (1343 – after 1416), also known as Juliana of Norwich, the Lady Julian, Dame Julian or Mother Julian, was an English mystic and anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings, now known as Revelations of Divine Love, are the earliest surviving English language works by a woman, although it is possible that some anonymous works may have had female authors. They are also the only surviving English language works by an anchoress. Julian of Norwich lived through the worst pandemic in European history, the bubonic plague of the 14th century. Unlike many of her contemporaries (and ours), she did not curse the darkness or create scapegoats of Jews or “heretics” or “others.” She instead grounded her view of the world and of Christ in the “goodness of creation” where encountered a God who is “the goodness in all things.” She also developed a profound theology of the divine feminine and the “motherhood of God” and even the “motherhood of Christ.” She states that “the deep wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother.” Notice how she is linking together Wisdom, Divinity (understood in its richness and diversity as Trinity), Motherhood, the feminine. Julian was very familiar with the wisdom tradition of the Hebrew Bible (scholars agree that Jesus came from the wisdom tradition also), a tradition that is both cosmic and practical, nature-based and committed to creativity as the work of the creating Spirit. Preexistent wisdom is celebrated in Israel on numerous occasions. In the book of Job the question is asked, “Where does wisdom come from?” (Job 28:12 20) and in Baruch wisdom is celebrated as the divine attribute by which God governs the world (Bar. 3:9-4:4). She is personified in Proverbs: Wisdom calls aloud in the streets, she raises her voice in the public squares; she calls out at the street corners, She delivers her message at the city gates. (Prv. 1:20f) Notice: She is not elitist. She is not ensconced in the ivory tower at the academy but in the streets and public squares and at the street corners and the city gates. She is eager to speak truth and justice to all, especially the oppressed. Like a mother who cares. Disclaimer: It is important to remember that some of the women you will read about during Feminist Friday will have done unsavory, bad, and sometimes even terrible or unforgivable things during their lives. I have decided to include any women found to be problematic rather than disregard them entirely because I believe that it would be a disservice to do otherwise. The different women discussed here have lives that span over thousands of years during which life on Earth and humanity in general changed immensely and unrecognizably. Some of their values will be outdated. Some will be laughable. Some offensive. However, I implore you to try and look at these women as individual members of a world made to tame, shame, shackle, subjugate, abuse, and kill them. Do not ignore the horrors of the past. You are free to dislike them (I dislike many!), but recognize their achievements within the context of their time and place in the world.
