Format:
Online-Ressource (332 p.)
ISBN:
9780520211629
Content:
Barbara 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
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Description based upon print version of record
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Abbreviations; Preface (1997); Preface (1987); 1. "A poor little female"; Biographical sketch; Survey of Hildegard's works; Theology and the problem of feminine authority; 2. The Feminine Divine; Theophany and the bride of God; The mirror of providence, the virgin spring, and the tree of life; The eternal counsel; Wisdom as creatrix and anima mundi; Wisdom's vesture; The chastisements of charity; 3. The Woman and the Serpent; Made in God's image; The garment and the mirror; The bright cloud and the shadow; Eve and Satan
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4. Daughters of EveWomen's sexuality and character; God, Satan, and fertility; Gynecology; Healing and magic; 5. The Mother of God; Mary and the ancient counsel; Eve and Mary; Atonement through the virgin birth; Mary as the feminine ideal; Mary, the Church, and the priesthood; 6. The Bride of Christ; The Church eternal in heaven; Synagogue and Church; The wedding on Calvary; Christ's virgins and the virgin Church; Mother Church and the motherhood of God; "An effeminate age"; 7. Sister of Wisdom; Theology and gender revisited; Sapiential thought through the twentieth century
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Feminism and the future of SophiaTexts of Hildegard's Poetry; Bibliography; Discography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520920187
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sister of Wisdom : St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine, With a New Preface, Bibliography, and Discography
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
Author information:
Newman, Barbara 1953-
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