Green Mass - The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen Susanne Kriemann Mariana Carvalho

Mariana Carvalho

in harrowing times

A connective thread is the recurring presence of sound—audible

and driven by a bold imagination and a passionate commitment to human freedom

Green Mass - The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen Susanne Kriemann Mariana CarvalhoGreen Mass is a meditation on and with twelfth century Christian mystic and polymath Saint Hildegard of Bingen. Attending to Hildegard's vegetal vision, which greens theological tradition and imbues plant life with spirit, philosopher Michael Marder uncovers a verdant mode of thinking. The book stages a fresh encounter between present day and premodern concerns, ecology and theology, philosophy and mysticism, the material and the spiritual, in word