Hadewijch and Her Sisters: Other Ways of Loving and Knowing (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780791415429)

Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman, describes her relationship with God as a mutual loving in which God and she affect each other personally and profoundly. This book presents in detail the account by Hadewijch of this supreme and most satisfying experience.

Presented here are phenomenologically specific traits of the bodily knowing that Hadewijch and other women of her time and place prized in their devotion to Christ and his saints. The opposition to the traditional Western ideal and norm is evident. In prizing embodied mutuality, Hadewijch has learned from Bernard of Clairvaux, but sees much more.

Author: John Giles Milhaven
ISBN-10: 0791415422
ISBN-13: 9780791415429
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Language: English
Published: 08/24/1993
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.98h x 5.90w x 0.42d