A closer look
The 12th-century polymath Hildegard of Bingen didn't see God as a distant old man, but rather as an intensely wet, green botanical force. She coined the theological concept of 'Viriditas,' a literal life-giving dampness that pulses through everything from plants to human souls. To Hildegard, sin wasn't just morally bad; it was literally a crusty, spiritually dehydrating disease. If you weren't constantly saturated with the cosmic green juice of Viriditas, your soul would violently shrivel up and turn into metaphysical dust.
