St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090 - 1153), was a Burgundian abbot, and an important reformer of Benedictine monasticism through the new Cistercian order. He is famous for playing a key…

St Bernard expounds on the 4 separate kinds of love experienced on the way to God: self-love, selfish love, loving ‘God apart’, and loving one’s self in God. This path…

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You want me to tell you why God is to be loved and how much. I answer, the reason for loving God is God Himself; and the measure of love…

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This book examines the role Augustine of Hippo (354-430) played in shaping the mystical thought of two twelfth-century monastic authors, the early Cistercians Bernard of Clairvaux (1091-1153) and William of…