Hildegard of Bingen · Theology
Hildegard’s most original idea: <em>viriditas</em>, the ‘greening power’ - the moist, fresh, life-giving force by which God quickens all creation, the sap of the Holy Spirit running through plants, bodies, and souls alike, in a theology that reads almost like an ecology.
You learned that viriditas (‘greenness’ or ‘greening power’) is Hildegard’s name for the moist, fertile life-force by which God vivifies all things, closely tied to the Holy Spirit; that its opposite is ariditas , a withering dryness; and that it links spirit, body, and the natural world…
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