Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the FeminineBarbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things. With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history. |
Contents
A poor little female | 1 |
Survey of Hildegards works | 15 |
The Feminine Divine | 42 |
The mirror of providence the virgin spring | 51 |
Wisdom as creatrix and anima mundi | 64 |
The Woman and the Serpent | 89 |
The bright cloud and the shadow | 100 |
Daughters of Eve | 121 |
The Mother of God | 156 |
The Bride of Christ | 196 |
Sister of Wisdom | 250 |
Appendixes | 273 |
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