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What is a Mystic?

2013

Interview of Professor Bernard McGinn on Christian Mysticism.

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Seeing with Mystic Vision

Today we remember and honor one of the great mystics of the Church, Hildegard of Bingen. Mystics are those who have been gifted with an extraordinary ability to see. They often see and perceive things others do not or cannot see.

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Br. David Vryhof
2013
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Hildegard von Bingen's Mystical Visions: Translated from Scivias

Twelfth-century Rhineland mystic Hildegard von Bingen records her exquisite encounter with divinity, producing a magnificent fusion of divine inspiration and human intellect.

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Hildegard von Bingen
1995
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The Medieval Prophetess Who Used Her Visions to Criticize the Church

Hildegard of Bingen fought the patriarchy from her cloister.

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Hadley Meares
2016
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Hildegard of Bingen: The Nun Who Loved the Earth

The earth sustains humanity. It must not be injured; it must not be destroyed. —Hildegard of Bingen

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Cynthia Overweg
2017
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Hildegard of Bingen: Essential Writings and Chants of a Christian Mystic

Hildegard of Bingen―visionary, abbess, composer, dramatist, poet and healer―was the brilliant and passionate precursor of many of the great women mystics of the Middle Ages.

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Dr. Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook (translator)
2016
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Hildegard of Bingen’s Book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs

Hildegard of Bingen, a Rhineland mystic of the twelfth century, has been called an ideal model of the liberated woman. She was a poet and scientist, painter and musician, healer and abbess, playwright, prophet, preacher and social critic.

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Hildegard of Bingen, Matthew Fox (editor)
1987
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Hildegard of Bingen: Scivias

This work contains the 26 visions of Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), who was the first of the great German mystics, as well as a poet and a prophet, a physician and a political moralist.

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Hildegard of Bingen
1990
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Selected Writings: Hildegard of Bingen

This unique volume includes a chronology of her life and times, bibliography, select discography, explanatory notes, glossary, and connecting commentary.

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Hildegard of Bingen
2001
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