Theological Breadth, Interconnection, Tradition, and Gender: Hildegard, Hadewijch, and Julian Today

From: Anglican Theological Review | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Downing, F Gerald | Copyright information

As women theologians, especially, have made dear, we and our world are complex. We need theology which relates that complexity coherently to God. In that regard there is something to be learned from medieval theological reflections, which are often much more comprehensive than we may imagine or than our modern specialists may suggest. Heirs to a classical educational syllabus, writers in the Middle Ages instinctively interconnected, and enriched their Godward thinking with their understanding...

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