BERNARD of CLAIRVAUX

SELECTED WORKS

TRANSLATION AND FOREWORD BY

G.R. EVANS

INTRODUCTION BY

JEAN LECLERCQ, O.S.B.

PREFACE BY

EWERT H. COUSINS

PAULIST PRESS

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Cover art: Courtesy of the Mansell Collection, Ltd, London, England.

Copyright ©1987 by

Gillian R. Evans

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 91–1153.

Bernard of Clairvaux: selected writings.

Bibliography: p.

Includes index.

1. Spiritual life—Catholic authors. 2. Bible. O.T. Song of Solomon—Sermons. 3. Catholic Church—Sermons. 4. Sermons, English—Translations from Latin. 5. Sermons, Latin—Translations into English. I. Evans, G. R. (Gillian Rosemary) II. Title

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Editorial Consultant

Ewert H. Cousins—Professor, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.

John E. Booty—Professor of Church History, Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.

Joseph Dan—Professor of Kaballah in the Department of Jewish Thought, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.

Albert Deblaere—Professor of the History of Spirituality, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy.

Louis Dupré—T.L. Riggs Professor in Philosophy of Religion, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.

Rozanne Elder—Executive Vice President, Cistercian Publications, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Mircea Eliade—Professor in the Department of the History of Religions, University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.

Anne Fremantle—Teacher, Editor and Writer, New York, N.Y.

Karlfried Froehlich—Professor of the History of the Early and Medieval Church, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, N.J.

Arthur Green—Associate Professor in the Department of Religious Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.

Stanley S. Harakas—Professor of Orthodox Christian Ethics, Holy Cross Greek Orthodox Seminary, Brookline, Mass.

Jean Leclercq—Professor, Institute of Spirituality and Institute of Religious Psychology, Gregorian University, Rome, Italy.

Miguel León-Portilla—Professor of Mesoamerican Cultures and Languages, National University of Mexico, University City, Mexico.

George A. Maloney, S.J.—Director, John XXIII Ecumenical Center, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y.

Bernard McGinn—Professor of Historical Theology and History of Christianity, University of Chicago Divinity School, Chicago, Ill.

John Meyendorff—Professor of Church History, Fordham University, Bronx, N.Y., and Professor of Patristics and Church History, St. Vladimir’s Seminary, Tuckahoe, N.Y.

Seyyed Hossein Nasr—Professor of Islamics, ...