Mysticism and Materiality: Reading Julian of Norwich (circa 1342–1416) and Annie Dillard (1945–)
Anglican theological review July 29, 2025 C. Bynum
Responding to Simon Critchley’s recent book Mysticism (2024), which engages with her earlier Christian Materiality (2011), Caroline Bynum compares two well-known mystics, Julian of Norwich and Annie Dillard, who lived six hundred years apart, and argues that to both the material world—nature, conceptions of it, and art in some way reflecting it—was key in her visions of what lay beyond that...