Christian History

Issue 24

Bernard of Clairvaux, Medieval Reformer and Mystic

Originally published in 1989

Christian History magazine was published by Christianity Today from 1982 to 2008.

Articles in this Issue

A 12th Century Man for All Seasons

The Life and Thought of Bernard of CIairvaux

The Spirituality of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

From Love of Self To Love of God To Love of Self for God

The Bread of God’s Book

Saint Bernard and Holy Scripture

The Search for a Holy Life

A Brief Overview of Medieval Monasticism

The Needle of Sin

Excerpts on man’s original simplicity from St. Bernard’s Sermons on the Song of Songs

The Reformer Saint and the Saintly Reformer

Calvin and the Legacy of Bernard of Clairvaux

A Chimaera of His Age

A Man of Peace and the Church Militant

Bernard Lives Today

Cistercians around the world continue to live the monastic life of which Bernard of Clairvaux was the propagator and theologian.

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