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Perhaps Bernard’s most delightful tract, On Loving God posits that everything good in human persons is an expression of God’s love and by love the person may participate in the being of the triune God. In a new analytic commentary, Stiegman examines Bernard’s language, logic, and theology, demonstrating the vital importance of reading medieval authors on their own terms, without superimposing...

more than these two forms of ignorance that presumption29 by which you, knowingly and on purpose, seek your glory in goods that are not your own and that you are certain are not in you by your own power. In this you are not ashamed to steal the glory of another. Indeed, the first kind of ignorance has no glory; the second kind has, but not in God’s sight.30 But the third evil, which is committed full knowingly, is a usurpation of divine rights. This arrogance31 is worse and more dangerous than
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