Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the FeminineUniversity of California Press, 1989 - 305 pages Barbara Newman reintroduces English-speaking readers to an extraordinary and gifted figure of the twelfth-century renaissance. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) was mystic and writer, musician and preacher, abbess and scientist who used symbolic theology to explore the meaning of her gender within the divine scheme of things. With a new preface, bibliography, and discography, Sister of Wisdom is a landmark book in women's studies, and it will also be welcomed by readers in religion and history. |
Contents
PREFACE 1987 | xix |
A POOR LITTLE FEMALE | 1 |
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH | 4 |
SURVEY OF HILDEGARDS WORKS | 15 |
THEOLOGY AND THE PROBLEM OF FEMININE AUTHORITY | 34 |
THE FEMININE DIVINE | 42 |
THEOPHANY AND THE BRIDE OF GOD | 46 |
THE MIRROR OF PROVIDENCE THE VIRGIN SPRING AND THE TREE OF LIFE | 51 |
GYNECOLOGY | 143 |
HEALING AND MAGIC | 148 |
THE MOTHER OF GOD | 156 |
MARY AND THE ANCIENT COUNSEL | 160 |
EVE AND MARY | 167 |
ATONEMENT THROUGH THE VIRGIN BIRTH | 171 |
MARY AS THE FEMININE IDEAL | 181 |
MARY THE CHURCH AND THE PRIESTHOOD | 188 |
THE ETERNAL COUNSEL | 55 |
WISDOM AS CREATRIX AND ANIMA MUNDI | 64 |
WISDOMS VESTURE | 71 |
THE CHASTISEMENTS OF CHARITY | 75 |
THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT | 89 |
MADE IN GODS IMAGE | 91 |
THE GARMENT AND THE MIRROR | 94 |
THE BRIGHT CLOUD AND THE SHADOW | 100 |
EVE AND SATAN | 107 |
DAUGHTERS OF EVE | 121 |
WOMENS SEXUALITY AND CHARACTER | 126 |
GOD SATAN AND FERTILITY | 133 |
THE BRIDE OF CHRIST | 196 |
THE CHURCH ETERNAL IN HEAVEN | 198 |
SYNAGOGUE AND CHURCH | 204 |
THE WEDDING ON CALVARY | 211 |
CHRISTS VIRGINS AND THE VIRGIN CHURCH | 218 |
MOTHER CHURCH AND THE MOTHERHOOD OF GOD | 228 |
AN EFFEMINATE AGE | 238 |
SISTER WISDOM | 250 |
THEOLOGY AND GENDER REVISITED | 254 |
SAPIENTIAL THOUGHT THROUGH THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | 258 |
FEMINISM AND THE FUTURE OF SOPHIA | 265 |
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