A Review of On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.
In On Loving God Bernard outlines a journey from self-love to self. humaneness, and natural imagery, and are simple and biblical in content. In such an essay as this we can merely introduce a corner of Bernard’s richness, yet from any corner of his thought we are led back always to the center, to the love of God. CH. By Dennis Martin (Christian History originally published this article in.
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, (born 1090, probably Fontaine-les-Dijon, near Dijon, Burgundy (France)—died August 20, 1153, Clairvaux, Champagne; canonized January 18, 1174; feast day August 20), Cistercian monk and mystic, founder and abbot of the abbey of Clairvaux and one of the most influential churchmen of his time. Early life and career. Born of Burgundian landowning aristocracy, Bernard.
Bernard of Clairvaux (1090—1153) Describes Four Types of Love.. So, we start by loving God, not for his own sake but ours. It is good for us to know how little we can do by ourselves, and how much we can do with God’s help, and therefore to live rightly before God, our trusty support. But when recurring troubles force us to turn to God for help, even a heart as hard as iron, as cold as.
Saint Bernard's On Loving God is one of his most delightful, and most widely read, works. It stands in the tradition of the Fathers of the Church, but it carries patristic teaching into the Middle Ages and into the cloister. Its famous affirmation that God is to be loved without limit, sine modo, is taken directly from the letters of Saint Augustine. While the tract is not an example of.
On Loving God by St. Bernard of Clairvaux Next Chapter Table of Contents. DEDICATION. To the illustrious Lord Haimeric, Cardinal Deacon of the Roman Church, and Chancellor: Bernard, called Abbot of Clairvaux, wisheth long life in the Lord and death in the Lord. Hitherto you have been wont to seek prayers from me, not the solving of problems; although I count myself sufficient for neither. My.
Editions for On Loving God: 0879071141 (Paperback published in 1995), (Kindle Edition), (Kindle Edition published in 2012), 1926777123 (Paperback publish.
These nine volumes offer an intriguing glimpse into the life and works of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, a twelfth-century Cistercian abbot and Doctor of the Church. Study the chronology of St. Bernard’s life through his collected letters. Read his meditations on prayer and God’s love. Gain access to 104 of his sermons—many of which examine the Song of Songs in vibrant detail.