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On Loving God Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint (1090-1153)

October 20, 2011

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Chapter I. Why we should love God and the measure of that love

Chapter II. On loving God. How much god deserves love from man in recognition of His gifts, both material and spiritual: and how these gifts should be cherished without neglect of the Giver

Chapter III. What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God

Chapter IV. Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love

Chapter V. Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is

Chapter VI. A brief summary

Chapter VII. Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things

Chapter VIII. Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake

Chapter IX. Of the second and third degrees of love

Chapter X. Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake

Chapter XI. Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection

Chapter XII. Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians

Chapter XIII. Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings

Chapter XIV. Of the law of the love of sons

Chapter XV. Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland

Index of Scripture References

Bernard of Clairvaux Saint (1090-1153)

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