These include the fundamental human vocation to understand both ourselves and all creation as the work of God, and our place as cooperative agents of that work such rational understanding as the means to come to know our Creator and properly fulfill the work for which we were created the relationship between humanity and the rest of creation as microcosm and macrocosm and the eternal predestination of the incarnate Word of God irrupting into and unfolding through time, as revealed in both Scripture and the life of the Church. This grand vision is the culmination of Hildegard’s entire theological project and represents her most mature formulation of themes intrinsic to her thought. Each vision of the work elaborates the dynamic Word of God, present before and then within Creation, becoming a human being to bring the Work of God-humanity and by extension all creation-to perfection. Hildegard (II.16), the Visionary Doctor describes the genesis of the work in her meditations on the Prologue to the Gospel of John. In an autobiographical passage included in the Life of St. both humankind and all creation unfolding and acting across salvation history. Hildegard of Bingen’s final and greatest visionary work was the Liber Divinorum Operum, the “Book of Divine Works.” Composed in the decade from 1163 to 1173, its ten visions are the most complex of Hildegard’s corpus, each revealing different aspects of the Work of God ( opus Dei), i.e. (c) The Catholic University of America Press, 2018.
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