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If Jesus cannot be properly imaged by a woman, someone neglected to
tell English mystic and anchoress Julian of Norwich, who in the 14th
century called Jesus "our Mother in kind, in our substantial
making--in whom we are grounded and rooted; and he is our Mother of
mercy, in taking our sensuality. Thomas Bilney's martyrology records his parting gift of
Tyndale's New Testament and The Obedience of a Christian Man as he
set forth to die at the heretic's stake at Lollards' Pit in
Norwich: "And so setting forward on his journey toward the
celestial Jerusalem, he departed from thence to the anchoress in
Norwich, and there gave her a New Testament in Tyndale's
translation, and the obedience of a Christian man. The 14th-century anchoress Julian of Norwich
saw the horror of sin but in the end heard God's word that
"all will be well. |
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