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Bernard of Clairvaux - Selected Works (Paperback)
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"...a milestone in American religious publishing." New Catholic
World Bernard of Clairvaux-Selected Works translation and foreword
by G.R. Evans introduction by Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. preface by
Ewert H. Cousins "Lord, you are good to the soul which seeks you.
What are you then to the soul which finds? But this is the most
wonderful thing, that no one can seek you who has not already found
you. You therefore seek to be found so that you may be sought for,
sought so that you may be found." -Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153)
Born in Fontaines-les-Dijon in 1090, Bernard had become, by his
twenty-fifth birthday, the abbot of a Cistercian monastery which he
had founded in the valley of Clairvaux near Aube, France, some four
years earlier. There in those isolated and rugged surroundings he
became the spokesman for a revival of monastic life in an age when
the radical spirit of religious life was endangered by a movement,
best seen in the excesses of the monks of Cluny, that stressed the
adaptation of the rule of St. Benedict to the exigencies-and taste
for princely comforts-of the royal courts of twelfth-century
France. But Bernard's dedication to the strict observance of
Benedict's rule was mingled not with the abrasive, shrill style of
the prophet but with a sweetness and purity of vision that earned
him the title Doctor mellifluous. For he possessed a sense of the
love of God, the importance of humility, and the sheer beauty of
holiness that has made his writings favorites of scholars and
laymen alike throughout the ages. Here in a new translation by G.R.
Evans are the writings that have had such a major role in shaping
the Western monastic tradition and influencing the development of
catholic mystical theology. Together with an introduction by the
master of Bernard studies, Jean Leclercq, they comprise a volume
that occupies a place of special importance in the chronicle of the
history of the Western spiritual adventure.
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