This dissertation examines how Pentecostal-Charismatics in African contexts derive spiritual knowledge from the experience of dreams and visions (D/Vs), and discusses how the experiences and their interpretations manifest a distinctive expression of epistemology. The topic is a …
This dissertation examines beliefs and practices related to second sight in Scotland, with a particular focus on the period from c. 1600 to c. 1800. An influential strain of historiography has asserted that this period was characterized by “disenchantment,” a process of increasi…
Current studies about Spirit-inspired visions are largely descriptive or overshadowed as they are part of a larger examination on Spirit baptism, pneumatology, or eschatology. The purpose of this study is to contribute to the discussion of Spirit-inspired visions and to inspire …
This work reconsiders the meanings attached to the concept of public accountability. While formally central to the constitution in the UK, its meaning is a contested one. After reviewing the literature, the work situates the concept of accountability in two case studies, each a …
Experiences of presence are common in bereavement. The bereaved person may see the deceased, hear their familiar voice, or otherwise feel they are close at hand. But although common, they are experiences not without controversy. They have come under a variety of descriptions, fr…
Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing o…
"Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred on the crucified Christ. Twenty years later while living as a church anchoress she is believed to have set out her visions in a text called the Showing of Love. The t…
Julian of Norwich was a fourteenth-century woman who at the age of thirty had a series of vivid visions centred around the crucified Christ. Twenty years later, while living as an anchoress in a church, she is believed to have set out these visions in a text called the Showing o…
This volume is a study of the 14th-century recluse, Julian of Norwich and shows that she was an adept and insightful teacher in the Middle Ages.