TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mary Lou Shea
PY  - 2010
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9781453904947
TI  - Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation
T2  - Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Margaret Ebner, and Julian of Norwich
DO  - 10.3726/978-1-4539-0494-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1129635
N2  - Hadewijch of Antwerp (c.1200?-1240), Beatrice of Nazareth (1200-1268), Margaret Ebner (1291-1351), and Julian of Norwich (1343-1416/19) are best known for their mystical experiences and literary styles. Medieval Women on Sin and Salvation explores the reality that these women understood their encounters in primarily theological categories. It is well documented that Anselm of Canterbury’s 1098 Cur Deus Homo was quickly and widely adopted by late medieval religious men. Given the deeply relational, somewhat unconventional, yet clearly orthodox interpretations of Anselm’s theory expressed by Hadewijch, Beatrice, Margaret, and Julian, it would seem that nuns, beguines, and devout lay women were compelled by the same understanding of Atonement as the priests, monks, brothers, and lay men of the era. Unable to offer academic theological treatises, given the constraints of their age, these women managed to convey, through their writings, profoundly theological insights into the crucial Christian concepts of the natures of soul and sin, the Fall, and the Incarnation and its benefits, both for God and for humanity. This book offers valuable new insights and is suitable for upper division undergraduate classes and graduate courses in the history of Christianity/Medieval Christianity, theology, spirituality, and women’s studies.
KW  - Religion, Christianity, Theology, Medieval (theology, Women, etc.), Women (Beguines, Nuns, Anchoresses), Mystics/Mysticism, Anselm of Canterbury, Julian of Norwich, Hadewijch of Antwerp, Beatrice of Nazareth, Atonement Theory, Anselm (von Canterbury), Cur Deus homo, Rezeption, Hadewijch, Beatrijs (van Nazareth), Ebner, Margareta, Juliana (von Norwich), Religion, Christianity, Theology, Medieval (theol
LA  - English
ER  -