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- The Book of Divine Works
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: The Catholic University of America Press
- Series: The Fathers of the Church: Mediaeval Continuation
summary
Completed in 1173, The Book of Divine Works (Liber Divinorum Operum) is the culmination of the Visionary’s Doctor’s theological project, offered here for the first time in a complete and scholarly English translation. The first part explores the intricate physical and spiritual relationships between the cosmos and the human person, with the famous image of the universal Man standing astride the cosmic spheres. The second part examines the rewards for virtue and the punishments for vice, mapped onto a geography of purgatory, hellmouth, and the road to the heavenly city. At the end of each Hildegard writes extensive commentaries on the Prologue to John’s Gospel (Part 1) and the first chapter of Genesis (Part 2)—the only premodern woman to have done so. Finally, the third part tells the history of salvation, imagined as the City of God standing next to the mountain of God’s foreknowledge, with Divine Love reigning over all.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. i-iv
- Dedicatory Chronogram
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Abbreviations
- pp. xi-xiv
- Illustrations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Select Bibliography
- pp. xvii-xxii
- Introduction
- pp. 1-26
- The Book of Divine Works
- pp. 27-28
- Part I
- Vision 1: Theophany of Divine Love
- pp. 33-45
- Part II
- Part III
- Indices
- General Index
- pp. 485-531
- Index of Holy Scripture
- pp. 532-538
- Index of References to Hildegard’s Works
- pp. 539-545
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813231303
Related ISBN(s)
9780813231297
MARC Record
OCLC
1059542998
Launched on MUSE
2018-12-06
Language
English
Open Access
No
Copyright
2018