Visión y experiencia mística en Juliana de Norwich. Un análisis desde la fenomenología de la religión

Juan Manuel González-Hernández

doi:10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.8.1.551

Authors

Juan Manuel González-Hernández National Autonomous University of Mexico. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Colegio de Filosofía (MX) https://orcid.org/0009-0001-0217-6136

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22201/fesa.26832917e.2026.8.1.551

Keywords:

Mystical experience, vision, Julian of Norwich, phenomenology of religion, the sacred

Abstract

This essay is an analysis of Book of visions and showings of the English anchoress Julian of Norwich (14^thcentury), based on the research made by German philosopher Rudolf Otto (1869-1937) and Mexican philosopher Isabel Cabrera (1958-). The purpose of this analysis is to emphasize the sapiential value of the anchoress’ thought. On one hand, it presents a description of mystical thinking according to Otto’s and Cabrera’s phenomenology theory. Through the concept of mysterium tremendum et fascinans, the epistemic and the aesthetic character of the mystical process are highlighted. On the other hand, the essay studies some passages of the Book by Lady Julian, showing the relation between mysticism and the numinous vision as a mode of “union with the sacred.”

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Author Biography

Juan Manuel González-Hernández, National Autonomous University of Mexico. Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Colegio de Filosofía

Graduate in Filosofía from the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras in Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), where he is profesor at the Colegio de Filosofía. Member of the Seminario de Investigación Religiosidad y cultura. Partner of the Asociación Filosófica de México and the Asociación de Hispanismo Filosófico. He has taught courses, conferences and diploma programs on topics in the philosophy of religion. He has specialized in authors such as Mircea Eliade, Paul Ricœur, Rudolf Otto and María Zambrano, as well as in other topics related to the religious phenomenon of ontology, philosophical anthropology, and philosophy of culture. He has written book chapters and articles about philosophy of religion.
He has also coordinated the book De las ensoñaciones de la verdad. Homenaje a María Zambrano along with Julieta Lizaola.

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González Hernández, Juan Manuel. 2025. “De las Ciencias del Espíritu a las Ciencias de las religiones.” En Reflexiones en torno al fenómeno religioso, coordinado por Julieta Lizaola Monterrubio y Jonathan Juárez Melgoza. México: Facultad de Filosofía y Letras-UNAM.

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