The Christian Century, February 3rd, 1993
MARGUERITE PORETES'S devotional book A Mirror for Simple Souls provides an example of the fruitfulness of paying attention to a book deemed heretical by ecclesiastical authorities in its own time. On June 1, 1310, Porete was burned as a heretic at the Place de Greve in Paris. A decade before, her book had been condemned as containing 15 erroneous theological beliefs. Porete was fully aware that her book might be misunderstood. Before its publication she had sent it to three theologians for their approval--a Franciscan friar, a Cistercian monk and a lay theologian. None of them found fault wi...
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