Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Featuring a new translation by G.R. Evans, Bernard of Clairvaux’s writings have played a major role in shaping the Western monastic tradition and influencing the development of Roman Catholic mystical theology. Together with an introduction by the master of Bernard studies, Jean Leclercq, they comprise a volume that occupies a place of special importance in the chronicle of the history of the Western spiritual adventure.
For a massive collection including over a hundred and twenty of the volumes in this series, see the Classics of Western Spirituality Bundle (126 vols.).
Key Features
- An expert treatment of mystical literature
- Fully integrates and cross references with other resources from your Logos library
- Allows for the writings of Bernard of Clairvaux to be more readily grasped through a fresh translation
Top Highlights
“‘Humility is the virtue by which a man recognizes his own unworthiness because he really knows himself.’” (Page 103)
“For the soul itself is nothing but reason, memory, and will.11” (Page 75)
“We may wonder which is the real question: whether God is to be loved because he deserves it, or because it is for our good.” (Page 174)
“If a man thinks (Jas 1:7) that what he is asked to do is easy, it is as though he did not know about spiritual warfare” (Page 73)
“But the soul which finds itself contaminated in this way cannot cast itself away as a man can cast away his clothes” (Page 69)
- Title: Bernard of Clairvaux: Selected Works
- Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
- Series: The Classics of Western Spirituality
- Publisher: Paulist Press
- Print Publication Date: 1987
- Logos Release Date: 2016
- Pages: 352
- Era: era:medieval
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon › Sermons; Catholic Church › Sermons; Sermons, English › Translations from Latin; Sermons, Latin › Translations into English; Spiritual life › Catholic authors
- Resource ID: LLS:BRNRDCLRVWRTNGS
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-03-11T21:11:28Z
About the Translator
G.R. Evans is Professor of Medieval Theology and Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge. She is the author of numerous, critically-acclaimed books and articles in the fields of patristic, medieval and Reformation history and theology. These titles include Augustine on Evil, Problems of Authority in the Reformation Debates, The Church and the Churches, Philosophy and Theology in the Middle Ages, Law and Theology in the Middle Ages, and Anselm.