On Loving God
Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's theological work addressing love and Christian living.
14 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Chapter I: Why we should love God and the measure of that love
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Chapter II: On loving God. How much God deserves love from man in recognition of His
3
Chapter III: What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
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Chapter IV: Of those who find comfort in the recollection of God, or are fittest for His
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Chapter V: Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is
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Chapter VI: A brief summary — Chapter VII: Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart
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Chapter VIII: Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake
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Chapter IX: Of the second and third degrees of love
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Chapter X: Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for
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Chapter XI: Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
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Chapter XII: Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
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Chapter XIII: Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
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Chapter XIV: Of the law of the love of sons
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Chapter XV: Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly