Viriditas

Viriditas (from the Latin viridis = green) is the Latin term for green power developed by Hildegard von Bingen and describes a basic power that should be inherent in all of nature, i.e. people, animals, plants and minerals. According to Hildegard, the basic power contained in everything is the basis of healing. The term tension force has been proposed as a modern expression . According to Hildegard, viriditas is weakened by monotonous activities, but in her opinion it can be refreshed by spending time in nature, for example hiking. It is a basis of the Hildegard mysticism.

Pope Gregory the Great also used the term. Of recent writers, Kim Stanley Robinson uses this term in his science fiction novels. Alternative medical ventures are sometimes named after this and even pieces of music, e.g. B. by Alfred Harth .

See also

• Vision trilogy ( Liber Scivias , Liber vitae meritorum and De operatione Dei , Hildegard of Bingen to 1150 )

literature

• Aspects of world knowledge with Hildegard von Bingen based on selected text passages , Cathleen Bochmann
• Gabriele Lautenschläger : 'Viriditas'. A term and its meaning. In: Hildegard von Bingen. Prophetess through the ages. For the 900th birthday. Ed. By Edeltraud Forster , among others, Freiburg / Basel / Vienna 1998, pp 224-237.

Web links

• Saint Hildegard Abbey
• greenflame english
• Painter Ogrody

Individual evidence

1. ^ A Theological Interpretation of Viriditas in Hildegard of Bingen and Gregory the Great , Jeannette D. Jones, (2012): Boston University, last accessed on December 9, 2017
2. ^ Voice of the Living Light: Hildegard of Bingen and Her World , Barbara Newman (1998): University of California Press