Vision as Biblical intertext in St. Gertrud

Abstract

I begin proposing that the visionary experience is a place of recreation and up to date reading of biblical experience; in the case of St. Gertrud this experience takes place principally in a liturgical context. I propose thus a three step hermeneutic path: from the biblical to the liturgical text; from this one to vision; from vision to the creation of the text that communicates it. Then I analyze a visionary text from St’ Gertrud’s writings, showing how it is structured in basis to biblical texts, interpreted through the traditional hermeneutic of the four senses of Scripture.