Loving God: The Teachings of Bernard of Clairvaux

Anamchara's modern version of this classic spiritual work allows twenty-first-century readers the opportunity to learn from Bernard of Clairvaux, one of Christianity's great theologians and mystics. Bernard's spirituality is both robust and positive, offering a timeless analysis of the nature of God—as well as the human impulse to love God—that is as practical and intelligent now as it was in the eleventh century. This careful paraphrase of Bernard's ancient words is a doorway to a fresh understanding of Divine love. "Love," writes Bernard, "is the essence, the very substance of God. . . . Love is at the same time God and the gift of God. . . . Love is the Giver, and love is the Divine gift."