Love Was His Meaning

She Was Nearly Lost to History, and She Has Never Been More Needed Her manuscripts were copied in secret. They were smuggled across the sea, hidden in cellars, preserved by trembling hands in an age when the wrong words could mean death. For centuries, Julian of Norwich was almost no one, a name scratched in an anchorite's register, a voice sealed behind a stone wall. Then the world found her again. And she will not let us go. Love Was His Meaning tells the full, astonishing story of how this fourteenth-century mystic and anchoress, who received sixteen showings of divine love during a near-fatal illness and spent the next twenty years meditating on what they meant, became one of the most beloved spiritual voices in Christian history. It traces her journey from the silence of her cell in Norwich to the hearts of contemplatives, seekers, and the simply desperate on every continent. And at the center of it all stands her great, unshakeable declaration: Love was his meaning. Who shewed it thee? Love. What shewed he thee? Love. Wherefore was it shewed? For Love. Inside This Book You Will Discover: The dramatic hidden history of Julian's manuscripts, how they survived suppression, exile, and centuries of silence before reaching us Who Julian actually was: the woman behind the visions, her suffering, her courage, her fierce and tender intelligence What her Revelations of Divine Love, the first book written in English by a woman, actually teaches, opened with clarity and warmth for modern readers The radical heart of her theology: that God is not wrath but love, not punishment but compassion, and that all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well How to enter Julian's world, to feel the anchorite's cell, hear the stillness, smell the tallow ca

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