God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries by Rosalynn Voaden

God's Words, Women's Voices: The Discernment of Spirits in the Writing of Late-Medieval Women Visionaries

Rosalynn Voaden

216 pages • first pub 1999 (view editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Awareness of the ecclesiastical doctrine of discretio spirituum (the means of testing whether visions were truly of divine origin) was vital for medieval women visionaries. Visions and prophecy offered medieval women one of the few pathways to the...

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