File Name: On Loving God
File Submitter: peterpanpirate
File Submitted: 04 Feb 2015
File Category: Books
Author: Bernard of ClairvauxSuggest New Tag:: Catholic, Middle Ages
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 scholastic theology, it shows a typically twelfth-century love of logic and an unexpectedly precise use of terminology.
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