On Loving God

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

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Người đọc:Kirsten Ferreri

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1. Why we should love God, and the measure of that love
2. 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
3. What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
4. Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love
5. Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is
6. A brief summary
7. Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things
8. Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake
9. Of the second and third degrees of love
10. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake
11. Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
12. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
13. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
14. Of the law of the love of sons
15. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland

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On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts Christian devotion in the context of God’s love for mankind. Summary by Kirsten Ferreri.