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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...

the way.” To those who hesitate to believe, he says, “I am the truth.” To those who are already climbing, he says, “I am the life.” I think I have shown clearly enough from this chapter of the Gospel that the fruit of the knowledge of truth is humility. But listen to another text. “I praise you, Father of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things” (which surely means the secrets of truth), “from the knowing and prudent” (that is, the proud), “and revealed them to the little ones” (that
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