| On Loving God: Volume 13 Revised Edition Contributor(s): Bernard of Clairvaux (Author), Walton, Robert (Translator), Stiegman, Emero (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0879071141 ISBN-13: 9780879071141 Publisher: Liturgical Press OUR PRICE: $23.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1995 Annotation: 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. In his analystic commentary, Emero Stiegman not only introduces readers to the abbot of Clairvaux's thought, but carefully analyses his language, his logic and his theology. In doing so, he demonstrates the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing on them categories favored by later generations, even our own. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Christianity - Catholic - Religion | Monasticism - Religion | Spirituality |
| Dewey: 189.4 |
| Series: Cistercian Fathers Series |
| Physical Information: 0.51" H x 5.57" W x 8.48" (0.61 lbs) 226 pages |
| Themes: - Religious Orientation - Catholic - Religious Orientation - Christian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Perhaps Bernard's most delightful tract, On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons is an expression of God's love and by love the person may participate in the being of the triune God. In a new analytic commentary, Stiegman examines Bernard's language, logic, and theology, demonstrating the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing categories developed by later generations. |