Dr. Joyce Lorraine Beck, a parishioner at St. Christopher Episcopal Church, Fort Worth, will present a class on Julian of Norwich as part of Texas Christian University’s Extended Education Fall Program from 7 to 8:30 pm on Tuesdays, September 16 through November 15, 2014. The 9-hour course fee is $109. Deadline for signing up Is Monday, September 15, 2014.
Dr. Beck writes, “Julian of Norwich was the first known woman to write a literary work in the English language. Originally written in the same Middle English as that of her contemporary Geoffrey Chaucer, her Revelations focuses on three ideas about the nature of God which are central to her visions–God is Love, the Trinity is not only like a Father and a Son, but like a creative and nurturing Mother, and “all shall be well.” A fourteenth-century anchorite and spiritual advisor, she was visited by many pilgrims, one of whom was Margery Kempe, the first author, male or female, of an autobiography in English. We will focus on her life and on reading her Revelations along with the works of writers she has influenced, such as the modern poets T. S. Eliot and Denise Levertov.”
More information and registration is here.