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3.69 AVERAGE
3.69 AVERAGE
I actually didn't finish this one. It wasn't the biography I was expecting from the cover copy, but instead some facts of Hildegard's life interspersed with New Age Christian mysticism. Which, hey, if that's the book you want to write, more power to you, but kindly 'fess up to it in the write-up, so people who are thinking about buying the thing know what they're getting into.
Great primer on an exceptionally cool nun. Matthew Fox compares her to 20th century figures and it shows just how prophetic she really was in the 12th century.
informative
medium-paced
I REALLY wanted to like this book. I tried very hard, but I just couldn't. It has nothing to do with the topic. Hildegard was an amazing woman. Her visions, art, and music really are treasures. This book though does something that personally rubs me the wrong way. It spends the entire book telling me what Hildegard thinks rather than showing me. This was the first book I ever read about Hildegard, and now that I'm more familiar with this saint I have even more trouble following some of the author's points. I can tell he is passionate about Hildegard. I just don't completely agree with some of his conclusions, or how he presents his arguments. I would have trouble recommending this to a friend.