Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God (De diligendo deo

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Bernard of Clairvaux, On Loving God (De diligendo deo) I. Primary Source

Bernard of Clairvaux. On Loving God, with an analytical commentary by E. Stiegman.

Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications, 1995.

You may also access Bernard’s On Loving God on the Internet at the following sites:

Bernard. On the Love of God. Trans. Marianne Caroline and Coventry Patmore.

London: Kegan

Paul, 1881.

Christian Classics Ethereal Library: http://www.ccel.org/ccel/bernard/loving_god.html

II. Secondary Sources

Evans, G. R. Bernard of Clairvaux. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Gilson, E. The Mystical Theology of Saint Bernard. Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian

Publications, 1990.

McGuire, Brian Patrick, ed. A Companion to Bernard of Clairvaux. Leiden: Brill, 2011.

**These sources are NOT necessary to your paper. However, if you find that you need

some help

interpreting Bernard’s ideas they will be helpful. Also, DO NOT use Wikipedia.

III. Short Writing Assignment

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was an important church man and spiritual writer in

the twelfth century. His brief work On Loving God is a letter written as a tract to answer

the question of why and how God should be loved. In it, Bernard sets forth his ideas

about love in relation to God. He also discusses the four degrees or steps of love as the

soul ascends toward God and then descends back to neighbor. In your paper, try to

explain how Bernard approaches the question of “how and why God should be loved.”

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