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Marguerite Porete, a sister in the religious movement called ‘beguines’, knows all about Hell.
She’s been there and survived to tell the tale.
Her book The Mirror of Simple Souls, which describes in passionate detail her intimate encounters with God,
is greeted with enthusiasm by scholars, monks, and noblewomen alike.
Meanwhile Guillaume de Paris, ambitious Dominican friar, is rising to high office.
As Inquisitor of France he instigates the brutal arrests of the Knights Templar, a scandal which infuriates the pope.
At this fateful moment Marguerite is sent to Guillaume on suspicion of heresy.
Her life is at stake but she realises the inquisitor has even more to lose unless she can convince him that only Love will set him free.
The Hidden Mirror of La Porete recreates the life of the mystic who remained anonymous for six centuries.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
MAGAZINE ARTiCLE
'Is there a vaccuum of theological diagnosis in church responses to sexual abuse?'
My response to
Andrew Graystone's tract
given at
Leeds Church Institute October 2022
LECTURE
'Yet in my flesh shall I see God'
BIBLE, GENDER & CHURCH
RESEARCH CENTRE
Cliff College
27 May 2019
NEW OPINION PIECE
IN
WOMAN ALIVE MAGAZINE
'What I learned about faith from Marguerite Porete - the first woman to write a Christian treatise in French'
18th June 2025
IN OTHER NEWS
“Susan Shooter’s ethnographic scholarship…establishes the theological agenda and also the possibility of ecclesial authenticity, which is why the painstaking work of Shooter and others, not to mention survivor witness disclosed in PBS Frontline films such as The Silence and Secrets of the Vatican, is so important. Vulnerability to these forms of witness is a requisite first step.”
'In 'Redeeming Trauma: An Agenda for Theology FIfteen Years On' in American Catholicism in the 21st Century: Crossroads, Crisis, or Renewal?, ed. Rademacher & Peters (Orbis, 2018), 137-149.
He continues to engage with
'How Survivors of Abuse Relate with God'
in:
(Orbis, 2023)
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