Laughing at the Devil: Seeing the World with Julian of Norwich - Hardcover

Hall, Amy Laura

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1478000120 ISBN 13: 9781478000129

Publisher: Duke University Press Books, 2018

Synopsis

Laughing at the Devil is an invitation to see the world with a medieval visionary now known as Julian of Norwich, believed to be the first woman to have written a book in English. (We do not know her given name, because she became known by the name of a church that became her home.) Julian “saw our Lord scorn [the Devil's] wickedness” and noted that “he wants us to do the same.” In this impassioned, analytic, and irreverent book, Amy Laura Hall emphasizes Julian's call to scorn the Devil. Julian of Norwich envisioned courage during a time of fear. Laughing at the Devil describes how a courageous woman transformed a setting of dread into hope, solidarity, and resistance.

About this title

Review

“You might not expect to find references to Game of Thrones, West Texas, barfing bears, divorce, and Machiavelli in a book on Julian of Norwich, but you will find all these and much more in this volume. Julian of Norwich is a most unusual theologian, and Amy Laura Hall has given us a most unusual book: it is engaging and illuminating, a personal, passionate, and political reflection on and with Julian.” Author: Karen Kilby, coeditor of Source: The Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology

From the Author

Amy Laura Hall is Associate Professor of Christian Ethics at Duke University Divinity School. She is the author of Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love; Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction; and Writing Home, With Love: Politics for Neighbors and Naysayers.

Edition details

• Publisher: Duke University Press Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1478000120
• ISBN 13: 9781478000129
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 144