Hadewijch and Her Sisters - Other Ways of Loving and Knowing

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.

About the author

John Giles Milhaven is Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. He is the author of Good Anger.

Product details

• Authors: John Giles Milhaven
• Publisher: Global Academic Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.1993
• EAN: 9780791415412
• ISBN: 978-0-7914-1541-2
• No. of pages: 171
• Weight: 426 g
• Series: Suny Series in Ethical Theory; SUNY series in Ethical Theory; Suny Series, the Body in Cultu
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day