Julian of Norwich


 * Emotional/ effective piety = "through such emotive imagining"
 * Julian of Norwhich was an  anchoress = religious recluse, spent life in enclosure, basically buried alive, completely alienated from world in order to pursue a more contemplative life.
 * Spent life contemplating her visions.
 * She received visions while very ill, was assumed to be dying
 * Received visions, then miraculously healed
 * Visions very graphic, detail oriented, "red blood running down from under the garland [of thorns]"
 * Vision = abstraction made real, straddles line between imaginary and real
 * Visions ghostly and bodily
 * "All creation the size of a hazelnut"
 * God "maketh it, loveth it, and keepeth it"
 * Hazelnut small, Virgin Mary Small, Julian small
 * Finding God in the details
 * Finding sacred in the simple
 * Christ is present, is here, not divine (but is), not separate
 * "homely"
 * Bleeding from the head described in great detail
 * "Sin is fitting"
 * Sin is necessary for our relationship with God
 * Without sin we couldn't be "purged," we sin and ask for mercy
 * Sin causes us to know ourselves, we come into contact with our need for God
 * Pauline theology