Hadewijch of Brabant (Haywigis)
fl. mid-13th c. · Christian Mysticism · Known
Hadewijch was a beguine in thirteenth-century Brabant who wrote in Middle Dutch and guided a circle of younger women by letter. Her subject is minne, Love addressed as a sovereign lady and as God at once, a fire that eats everything it touches. Her hardest teaching prizes being starved over being consoled: the highest life wastes away in the pains of Love, and a noble unfaith that never trusts it is loved enough drives deeper than a satisfied loyalty.
Signature
The position Hadewijch is most identified with in the Profiler:
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage
- Highest Good
- Love
Positions on the 4 axes the sources answer
- The Divine
- leans Indescribable (75 on a 0–100 scale from Describable to Indescribable)
- Ground of Being
- strongly leans Transcendence (95 on a 0–100 scale from Immanence to Transcendence)
- Ignorance
- leans Bondage (25 on a 0–100 scale from Bondage to Bliss)
- Conviction
- leans Certain (81 on a 0–100 scale from Uncertain to Certain)
16 of 20 axes are left blank: the sources do not answer them, or Hadewijch refused the framing. Nothing is imputed; a blank is not a middling score.
Foundational questions
- Theology
- Trinitarian Monotheism
What is your position on the existence and nature of God or gods? - Highest Good
- Love
What is the highest good? - Knowledge
- Grounded in God
What is the ultimate foundation of knowledge? - Authority
- Divine Revelation
What is the legitimate source of authority? - Paradox
- Coincidentia Oppositorum
What is the status of paradox? - Role of Emotion
- Path to the Divine
What is the proper role of emotion? - Human Nature
- Imago Dei
What is human nature? - Primary Bond
- The Divine
What is your primary bond and loyalty?