This is the first book written in English by a woman that we have. She lays out her discoveries about God (in Greek, apocalypses, which is translated "Revelations"). These revelations begin with the central question of the Christian academy, the Theodicy. Why does evil exist, if God is purely good, and he made everything, and if apart from God nothing has been made which has been made?
She elaborates a systematic theology in response to the turmoil of that question. She says that the issue of destiny seems to have a fatalistic component, indicating that God might be in perfect sovereignty over human reality, which only deepens the confusing nature of evil. She examines the prospect of hell, and the meaning behind the religious tradition of divine torture.
But, then Julian reports a breakthrough in these considerations: Revelations of Divine Love in the story of the gospels and the meaning of the Messiah figure in human history. In an epiphanic moment, she reports breaking through the limitations of human consciousness to attain a transcendent bliss where she was finally able to understand that God is overwhelmingly loving toward her.
She then describes the growth of new religious beliefs, that Jesus is not only the father: he is also the perfect mother, she feels. She feels Mary's role in the gospel is sacred because it codifies the question of God's feminine nature as a creator of life and sustainer of it. She ends the writing by reminding the reader that Jesus has already conquered the forces of evil, such that suffering has a perplexing nature.
