On Loving GodSaint Bernard of Clairvaux
On Loving God
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.
Audiolibros
15 capítulos
1 h 29 min
- 1 Why we should love God, and the measure of that love4:54
- 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 Giver8:38
- 3 What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God7:18
- 4 Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love7:36
- 5 Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is5:29
- 6 A brief summary2:29
- 7 Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things12:04
- 8 Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake5:26
- 9 Of the second and third degrees of love3:28
- 10 Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake6:12
- 11 Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection8:36
- 12 Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians5:11
- 13 Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings3:18
- 14 Of the law of the love of sons3:39
- 15 Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland5:27