“This is Hildegard of Bingen, Doctor of the Church, a woman for all women to find in themselves, to follow and to proclaim as sign and model of what they themselves must be permitted to be.”
- Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times
Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint for Our Times
Unleashing Her Power in the 21st Century
MATTHEW FOX
The words of Saint Hildegard are as relevant today for our personal lives and our world situation as they were in her own time. Hear her powerful message afresh from the impassioned pen of a giant of spiritual teaching.
Hildegard of Bingen, a 12-century German mystic, was a brash and brilliant medieval abbess who rebelled fearlessly against the patriarchy of church and society. She professed that Divinity had both a masculine and feminine dimension — and existed in all of the Cosmos and everything within it.
This mystic, author, artist, composer, herbalist, healer, preacher, and theologian — who oversaw her own monastery high on a hill in rural Germany — knew many centuries ago what is vitally important for us to understand and practice today: That we must acknowledge and honor our interdependence with all things, the “web of creation” binds us together. We must break the cycle of greed and destruction destroying Mother Earth. We must step up to fiercely protect and help her heal.
In this book, you will learn how Hildegard of Bingen’s perspectives — radical for her time — offer us sage wisdom for healing ourselves, our fractured societies, and our ravaged Earth.
“Beautifully written, compelling, scholarly account of one of the most remarkable women who ever lived and her total relevance to the situation on the planet today.”
“Hildegard of Bingen was born almost 1,000 years ago! But in this book she lives again in our time. In this book, it’s easy to see how she proclaimed our coming simply by refusing to accept in her time what we are still trying to achieve in ours. She gave us both the permission to trust our own insights and the call to require them for the women who will come after us. What she knew then, our best thinkers are calling us to now.”
Matthew Fox
Matthew Fox is an internationally acclaimed theologian and spiritual maverick who has spent the past forty years revolutionizing Christian theology, taking on patriarchal religion, and advocating for a creation-centered spirituality of compassion, justice, and resacralizing of the earth.
Originally a Catholic priest, Fox was silenced for a year and then expelled from the Dominican Order by Cardinal Ratzinger for teaching liberation theology and Creation Spirituality. Fox currently serves as an Episcopal priest, having received what he calls “religious asylum” from the Episcopal Church. With exciting results, he has worked with young people to create the Cosmic Mass to revitalize worship by bringing elements of rave and other postmodern art forms to the Western liturgical tradition.
He has written more than thirty books, which have sold over 1.5 million copies in sixty languages.
He lives in Oakland, CA.
“Hildegard understood the importance of the restoration of women’s deeply buried, culturally obscured feminine wisdom. She recognized that when women come into their own, there will be an end to the power-over dynamics that have blighted the planet. Only the integration of a healthy Sacred Masculine and a resurrected Divine Feminine can save us from our destructive ways.”