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Green Mass - The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen (Hardcover)
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Green Mass - The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen (Hardcover)
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Green 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
and sound. Hildegard's lush notion of viriditas, the vegetal power
of creation, is emblematic of her deeply entwined understanding of
physical reality and spiritual elevation. From blossoming flora to
burning desert, Marder plays with the symphonic multiplicity of
meanings in her thought, listening to the resonances between the
ardency of holy fire and the aridity of a world aflame. Across
Hildegard's cosmos, we hear the anarchic proliferation of her
ecological theology, in which both God and greening are circular,
without beginning or end. Introduced with a foreword by philosopher
Marcia Sa Cavalcante Schuback and accompanied by cellist Peter
Schuback's musical movements, which echo both Hildegard's own
compositions and key themes in each chapter of the book, this
multifaceted work creates a resonance chamber, in which to discover
the living world anew. The original compositions accompanying each
chapter are available free for streaming and for download at
www.sup.org/greenmass
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