Bernard of Clairvaux.: On Loving God
Bernard of Clairveaux
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 due to Him is immeasurable love. . . ." 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 reading or listening to this work, it is very important, as with all medieval authors, to take them on their own terms, without superimposing on them categories favored by later generations, even our own. Or especially not our own
Duration - 6h 9m.
Author - Bernard of Clairveaux.
Narrator - philip chenevert.
Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024.
Copyright - © 1129 Bernard of Clairveaux ©.
Location:
United States
Description:
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 due to Him is immeasurable love. . . ." 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 reading or listening to this work, it is very important, as with all medieval authors, to take them on their own terms, without superimposing on them categories favored by later generations, even our own. Or especially not our own Duration - 6h 9m. Author - Bernard of Clairveaux. Narrator - philip chenevert. Published Date - Thursday, 11 January 2024. Copyright - © 1129 Bernard of Clairveaux ©.
Language:
English
Opening Credits
Duration:00:07:18
On loving god dedication
Duration:01:41:53
Chapter I: Why we should love God and the measure of that love
Duration:03:48:34
Chapter II: On loving God. How much God deserves love from man in recognition of His gifts, both material and spiritual: and how these gifts should be cherished without neglect of the Giver
Duration:10:09:19
Chapter III: What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
Duration:08:38:51
Chapter IV: Of those who find comfort in the recollection of God, or are fittest for His love
Duration:08:51:36
Chapter V: Of the Christian’s debt of love, how great it is
Duration:06:34:44
Chapter VI: A brief summary
Duration:02:37:00
Chapter VII: Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man’s heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things
Duration:14:06:50
Chapter VIII: Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self’s sake
Duration:06:10:43
Chapter IX: Of the second and third degrees of love
Duration:03:44:50
Chapter X: Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God’s sake
Duration:07:00:09
Chapter XI: Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
Duration:09:26:44
Chapter XII: Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
Duration:05:32:01
Chapter XIII: Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
Duration:03:23:47
Chapter XIV: Chapter Of the law of the love of sons
Duration:03:46:33
Chapter XV: Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland
Duration:06:09:47
Ending Credits
Duration:00:18:25