Experimental Theology

"there was no payne that might be suffrid leke to that sorow that I had to se Him in payne" In Chapter 17, Julian continues her prolonged meditation upon the dying and dead body of Jesus.

The simplest reason of The Book of Love is for everyone, for both conservative and progressive readers of Scripture, is that love is hard.

In Part 2 of this series I described how, for conservative readers of the Bible, reading Scripture as a book of love was mainly a hermeneutical journey.

In the last post I described locations in The Book of Love where I tried to surprise progressive readers of the Bible.

As I said in the last post, Part 1 of The Book of Love is mainly speaking to readers who, for anxious reasons, resist stepping into hermeneutical self-awareness.

"Blodeleshede and peyne dryden within and blowyng of wynde and cold" In Chapter 16 Julian reaches her eighth showing, her vision of the death of Jesus on the cross.

In yesterday's post I described how, in The Book of Love, I wanted to bring some readers into "hermeneutical self-awareness."

In the Introduction to The Book of Love I describe how I wanted to write a book that would surprise both conservative and progressive readers of the Bible.

I recently shared how I attempted to use Blaise Pascal's strategy to "warm, not instruct" in writing The Book of Love.

Were you not told?