Julian of Norwich

Anchored Hope

Abstract

In “Julian of Norwich: Anchored Hope,” Jennifer May explores Julian’s profoundly hopeful view of God in the wake of plague and flood, and amid sometimes confusing messages from the Church. Julian’s contextual theology, which makes use of images and themes of her day to relate the love of God to her audience of all Christians, offers an example of one Christian’s effort to make peace between God and humanity in painful and bewildering circumstances. Her peaceful voice may provoke thought in our increasingly polarized world.

Julian of Norwich, anchoritism, vernacular theology, Black Death, fourteenth-century England, divine love, hope