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Issue 24 : Bernard of Clairvaux, Medieval Reformer and Mystic

Originally published in 1989

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Table of Contents

From the Editor: Sweeter Than Honey
A 12th Century Man for All Seasons

The Life and Thought of Bernard of CIairvaux

Tony Lane
A Brief Chronology of the Life and Works of Bernard of Clairvaux
The Spirituality of St. Bernard of Clairvaux

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

Dennis Martin
On Loving God

Bernard of Clairvaux
The Bread of God's Book

Saint Bernard and Holy Scripture

John Van Engen
Other Sources and the True Source
The Search for a Holy Life

A Brief Overview of Medieval Monasticism

Thomas Kay
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

W. Stanford Reid
A Chimaera of His Age

A Man of Peace and the Church Militant

Russell K. Bishop
Bernard Lives Today

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

M. Basil Pennington
Bernard of Clairvaux: Recommended Resources

Bernard of Clairvaux

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