On Loving God

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 30, 2023

In Category - Christianity - Other

Authors: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux In Year : 1123

Book Language: English

Audiobook: On Loving God

Why we should love God, and the measure of that love
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
What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God
Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love
Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is
A brief summary
Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things
Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake
Of the second and third degrees of love
Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake
Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection
Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians
Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings
Of the law of the love of sons
Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland

On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts Christian devotion in the context of God’s love for mankind. Summary by Kirsten Ferreri.