On Loving God - Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Title: On Loving God
Author: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux
Category: Christianity - Other
Time: 1:29:45

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.

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Why we should love God, and the measure of that loveOn 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 GiverWhat greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love GodOf those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His loveOf the Christian's debt of love, how great it isA brief summaryOf love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly thingsOf the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sakeOf the second and third degrees of loveOf the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sakeOf the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrectionOf love: out of a letter to the CarthusiansOf the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelingsOf the law of the love of sonsOf the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland

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