Word: anchoress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prescient forebear of Ruether and Daly saw no problem in Jesus' manhood. Nor did she seem rattled by masculine pronouns for God. Lady Julian of Norwich, an anchoress who lived in Chaucerian England in the 14th century, laid out her prophetic theology in a book called Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love. "God, Almighty, is our kindly Father," wrote Lady Julian. "God, all-Wisdom, is our kindly Mother." As for the Second Person in the Blessed Trinity-the Person incarnated in Jesus Christ-Lady Julian found that he was strongly feminine: "our Mother in kind, in whom we are grounded...
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