God's Lovers in an Age of Anxiety
Subtitle: The Medieval English Mystics (Traditions of Christian Spirituality.)
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: August 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781570753817
Subjects: Middle Ages, 600-1500; Religion - Inspirational/Spirituality; History; Christian Mysticism; Fathers Of The Church (Christianity); Religion; Mysticism; History and criticism; Devotional; Devotional literature, English; Devotional literature, English (Middle); England
First sentence: Fourteenth-century England produced an extraordinary flowering of religious writers.
Description: "God's Lovers in an Age of Anxiety examines the extraordinary flowering of English spirituality in the fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries, and shows its continuing power to nourish contemporary life and prayer.

Though each of the five writers discussed by Joan Nuth has a unique voice, Richard Rolle, the anonymous author of The Cloud of Unknowing, Walter Hilton, Julian of Norwich and Margery Kempe shared a common experience of living in an age of fear, violence and disintegration, and their work has a strange resonance for us, acting as 'distant mirrors' for the contemporary spiritual seeker."--BOOK JACKET.