Green Mass: The Ecological Theology of St. Hildegard of Bingen

by Michael Marder

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503629260
• ISBN13: 9781503629264
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"