Reviews for Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine

The average rating for Sister of Wisdom: St. Hildegard's Theology of the Feminine based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-01-30 00:00:00 Majid Afayee Summary: The theology and philosoy of Hildegard von Bingen. Review: I didn't make it all the way through this book. It went from very interesting to very crazy in no time flat. after the third or so time that we went to crazy town, I had to give up.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-05-16 00:00:00 Debbie Haas Deeply learned scholar--book has not aged well in a few spots, particularly in the odd psychological comments, which seem to have little or no psychological grounding. I also feel that attempts to place Hildegard into a larger Christian theological history, while important to make, also have a inadvertent tendency to obscure the fact that she was also heir to what must have been rich non-Christian oral traditions local to the region in which she lived. Due to the fact that we have so few sources on those traditions (writing was a largely Christian technology in medieval Europe, so much of what comes to us is Christian). It is unlikely that we will ever know whether Hildegard's particular theological expression is due to the uniquely forceful creativity and intellect of one woman in the Rhine, supported by the likes of Frederick Barbarossa, Bernard of Clairvaux, and others, or (yes, please do enjoy this run-on sentence, for which apologies in advance) whether she is the rare exemplum of a writer steeped in traditions unknown to us, passing the filter of Church scrutiny to reach us today. Perhaps, the dichotomy is not necessary and she can be both.