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Religious & Mystical Traditions

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  1. Research Note

    “All Shall Be Well”: The Argument Behind Julian of Norwich’s Most Quoted Line

    The best-known sentence in Julian of Norwich's Revelations of Divine Love is usually quoted as a piece of gentle reassurance. In her book it is the answer to a hard question about why sin exists, it is spoken by Christ and not by Julian, and she spends the following chapters pushing back on it; following that exchange shows a writer who was given a promise and was honest about not understanding it.

    Religious & Mystical Traditions
  2. Research Note

    Does the Cloud of Unknowing Ask You to Stop Thinking?

    A fourteenth-century English guide to prayer tells its reader that God can be loved but never thought, and instructs him to bury even holy reflections under a "cloud of forgetting." This article shows, from the book's own chapters, that the instruction is narrower and stranger than "stop thinking": it suspends thought during one particular exercise, for one particular kind of reader, and only after thought has done a great deal of work.

    Religious & Mystical Traditions