Matthew Fox is a well-known lecturer and Sominican scholar and the director of the Institute in Culture and
Creation Spirituality at Holy Names College, Oakland, California.
Review
"She [Hildegard] castigated a pope for his timidity and an emperor for moral blindness. She taught scholars
and preached to clergy and laity as no woman before her had ever done. . . . She claimed that now woman rather
than man--obviously Hildegard herself--was to do God's work. It is difficult not to see in her visionary experience
and activism, as well as her claim for the mission of woman in a male-dominated age, a gesture of protest, the
reaction of an intelligent and energetc woman who chafed under the restraints imposed on women by the culture in
which she lived."
--Bernard W. Scholz, The American Benedictine Review
Publisher web site, August, 2001
Summary
Hildegard's stunning mystical visions are portrayed here as beautiful four-color reproductions, accompanied
by her personal reflections.
