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On Loving God
Bernard of Clairvaux · Christianity · c. 1126
Translated by Edmund G. Gardner (1915, modernized)
6 chapters
Bernard of Clairvaux's compact treatise on the four degrees of love — from loving oneself for one's own sake, through loving God for one's own sake and loving God for God's sake, to the rare fourth degree in which one loves even oneself for God's sake.
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Contents
- 1Dedication
- 2Why We Should Love God
- 3How God Is to Be Known by Faith
- 4Of the First Degree of Love
- 5Of the Second and Third Degrees of Love
- 6Of the Fourth Degree of Love
