“Humanity, take a great examine your self. within, you’ve received heaven and earth, and all of construction. You’re an international – every little thing is hidden in you.” –Hildegard of Bingen

She used to be a Benedictine abbess, artist, composer, dietician, naturalist, poet, traveling preacher, mystic, and political advisor. She was once a self-doubter with acute sure bet in a merciful and mysterious God; a talented healer who suffered from disease her entire existence. Meet the incomparable Hildegard of Bingen. Nourishing, not easy, and idea-bursting, her writings will stir and wake up your soul.

This crucial reader captures the colourful spirit and intelligence of Hildegard with decisions from her songs, theological texts, liturgical song, and letters. mixed with an creation to Hildegard’s lifestyles and period, a map of Hildegard’s Germany, chronology, and a radical bibliography/discography, Hildegard of Bingen presents the fitting advent to the idea of this interesting medieval mystic.

“Nothing wanting pleasant . . . . I frequently felt i used to be analyzing Hildegard, the genuine Hildegard, for the 1st time.”

-Dr. Katharina Wilson, Professor of Comparative Literature, The college of Georgia

“This booklet is a present to the church. Carmen Butcher correctly selects and assuredly interprets Hildegard’s works, together with her hovering song, non secular visions, and chosen letters.”

-Scot McKnight, writer of The Jesus Creed and the true Mary

“Carmen Butcher has tapped into St. Hildegard’s spirit and made it accessible.”

– Br. Benet Exton, O.S.B., St. Gregory’s Abbey and University