New historical novel by Susan Shooter,                           OUT on JUNE 1st 2025

 

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.

 

Recreating the life of the mystic who remained anonymous for six centuries 

The Hidden Mirror of La Porete is Susan Shooter’s first historical novel.

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In Researching Female Faith

Chapter 8:

Choosing the Right Key

In CITYtheology

Winter 2022/23

 

'Is there a vaccuum of theological diagnosis in church responses to sexual abuse?'

 

link to talk

 

My response to

Andrew Graystone's tract

Falling Among Thieves

 

given at

Leeds Church Institute October 2022

 

 

'Yet in my flesh shall I see God'

 

BIBLE, GENDER & CHURCH

RESEARCH CENTRE

Cliff College

27 May 2019

 

VIDEO LINK

 

 

 

 

 

Link to

my publications 

 

 

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