The most painful of the wounds inflicted during the passion are Christ's wounds on His right shoulder, He revealed this to Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux.
Unless otherwise noted, translations are from
Bernard of Clairvaux, On the Song of Songs.
On the former topic, Riehle discusses twelfth-century Cistercian themes presented by
Bernard of Clairvaux, Aelred of Rievaulx, and the hymn Dulci Iesu memoria.
One of the delights of Tucker's excellent volume is its incisive and colorful treatment of the great prophet figures of the church: Peter, Paul, the Great Gregories,
Bernard of Clairvaux, Frances of Assisi, Anselm, Abelard, a' Becket of Canterbury, Wycliffe, Staupitz, Luther, Calvin, Muntzer, Menno Simons, Francis Xavier, John Owen, George Fox, the Wesleys, Jonathan Edwards, Abraham Kuyper, Karl Barth, Billy Graham, and the like.
Their topics include the six ages of history and the renewal of the human person: Christian humanism in Bede's gospel homilies, human dignity and bodily necessity according to
Bernard of Clairvaux, conceiving the soul: Aelred of Rievaulx and the sanctifying labor of the mind, Dante and the human identity: a transformation from grace to grace, and feminality as positive perfection and the active participation of women in generativity in the philosophical theology of John Duns Scotus.
Other major theologians discussed here are Augustine and
Bernard of Clairvaux.
Ashgabat, 1 October 2015 (nCa) -- As if Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux was talking about Kyrgyzstan -- The road to hell is paved with good intentions.
Bernard of Clairvaux admits, "I have seen a fraction of [God's] glory and it is awesome." Having dogs in my life, I can honestly say I've seen a fraction of God's love in their eyes.
Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux, who intones his prayer to the Blessed Virgin at the end, fulfills something of a unique role, in that he represents reality both inside and outside Dante's poetic and Templer-gnostic conception (Strelka, 237-43).
A fine performance, too, from Sam Crane, playing Abelard's bitter rival
Bernard of Clairvaux.
Saint
Bernard of Clairvaux, for example, severely criticized Abelard and other early scholastics, calling for traditional monastic learning: "Bernard's idea of knowledge," Hitchcock notes, "was as much personal and affective as intellectual."