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Inspired sustainability : planting seeds for action /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lothes Biviano, Erin (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Maryknoll : Orbis Books, 2016.
Series:Ecology and justice.
Subjects:
Human ecology > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Ecotheology.
Human ecology > Religious aspects.
Sustainability.
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Living light. Antiphon for the angels
  • The living light since childhood
  • The reflection of the living light
  • The Trinity
  • Spiritual guidance to another woman mystic
  • The path of the scriptures
  • A request for the pope's support
  • Part 2. Blazing fire. Hildegard describes her visions to Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Three powers in the glowing heat of a flame
  • Fire like the burning sun
  • Fire and bread
  • The fiery spirit
  • On the faith of a blazing heart
  • Part 3. Divine love. On God's love for all creatures
  • Celestial love
  • Love flows richly into all things
  • Divine love spreads like a flame
  • The voice of divine love
  • Part 4. Holy wisdom. O power of wisdom
  • Here begins the play of the virtues
  • The nature of God
  • Wisdom and her sisters
  • Part 5. Spiritual community. Monks, clergy, and laity
  • A feather on the breath of God
  • Separation from Richardis brings deep sorrow
  • Solace for Richardis's brother after her death
  • Hildegard justifies moving her community to Rupertsberg
  • The need for discipline
  • Giving up the world for God
  • A family conflict
  • Conflicts with the monks as Disibodenberg
  • Advice to her nuns in the event of her death
  • Part 6. Noble Greenness. Greenness of God's finger
  • Hail o greenest branch
  • O noblest greenness
  • Excessive abstinence withers greenness
  • Virginity and greenness
  • Part 7. God's creation. Humanity and other creatures
  • Humanity as microcosm
  • Mirror of divinity
  • O how miraculous
  • The cosmic egg
  • The sun, moon, and stars
  • Three paths
  • The human life cycle
  • Human temperaments
  • Part 8. Celestial harmony. For the Virgin Mary
  • Jubilant music
  • O church (of 11,000 virgins)
  • Song of rejoicing
  • Music and the prophetic spirit
  • Musical instruments
  • Part 9. Healing sciences. Dreams
  • Food and drink
  • The griffin
  • The ostrich
  • Insomnia
  • Migraine
  • Precious stones
  • The dog
  • The unicorn
  • Part 10. Women's health. A difficult birth
  • Childbirth
  • Conception
  • Fertility and infertility
  • Lactation
  • Menstruation
  • Menopause
  • When the virgin captured the unicorn
  • Part 11. Worldy witness. Advice to Eleanor of Aquitaine
  • The duty of a king
  • Political advice for the emperor
  • A warning about the use of violence
  • To a wife on her husband's health
  • The role of nobility
  • To Empress Irene on her desire for a child.