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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...

This is the third degree of love: in it God is already loved for his own sake. X. 27. Happy the man who has attained the fourth degree of love, he no longer even loves himself except for God. “O God, your justice is like the mountains of God.”252 This love is a mountain, God’s towering peak. Truly indeed, it is the fat, fertile mountain.253 “Who will climb the mountain of the Lord?”254 “Who will give me the wings of a dove, that I
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