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Bernard of Clairvaux

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Ber·nard of Clair·vaux  (br-närd, br-när; klâr-v), Saint 1090-1153.
French monastic reformer and political figure. Widely known for his piety and mysticism, he was instrumental in the condemnation of Peter Abelard and in rallying support for the Second Crusade.


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Bernard of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian mystic, abbot, and Doctor of the Church, took Urban's controversial theology yet another step further and argued that killing Muslims fell under the category of "malicide" (the killing of evil) rather than "homicide.
Shawn Madison Krahmer, "Adam, Eve, and Original Sin in the Works of Bernard of Clairvaux," Cistercian Studies Quarterly 37.
The tension between what Leclercq calls the monastic and the scholastic Middle Ages peaked in the conflict between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard over the issue of religion and philosophy.
 
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