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St. Bernard of Clairvaux ( 1090 – 1153-08-21 ), abbot of Clairvaux , was a highly influential French churchman and theologian. He was one of the founders of the Cistercian , or Bernardine, monastic order. Contents 1 Sourced 2 Unsourced 3 Criticism 4...


Biography

Name: Bernard of Clairvaux, St.
Birth Date: 1090
Death Date: 1153
Nationality: French
Gender: Male
Occupations: saint, monk, abbot, theologian

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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux, St.
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The French churchman St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was a Cistercian monk and founder and abbot of the monastery of Clairvaux. A theologian and Doctor of the Church, he dominated Europe through his eloquence and his counselling of popes and...
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Biography of Bernard of Clairvaux
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Bernard of Clairvaux is one of the most influential figures in the latter half of the Middle Ages, and one of the most paradoxical. Even Bernard thought of himself as “the chimera of his century.” He was first and foremost a Cistercian monk...


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Bernard of Clairvaux Summary
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BERNARD OF CLAIRVAUX (1090–1153), monastic reformer, abbot of the Cistercian monastery of Clairvaux, France. Bernard is known principally through four biographical accounts written in his own century (which contain more legend than fact),...
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Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, O.Cist (1090 - August 21, 1153) was a French abbot and the primary builder of the reforming Cistercian monastic order. "The voice of conscience, the dominating figure in the Catholic Church from 1125 to 1153"[1], his...


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Anglican Theological Review
Bernard of Clairvaux
07/01/2002: 702 words, approx. 2 pages
Bernard of Clairvaux. By Gillian R. Evans. Great Medieval Thinkers Series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. viii + 220 pp. $19.95 (paper). The expanse of time between the Patristic era and the Reformation remains for many in the Anglican communion terra incognita,...
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The Catholic Historical Review
Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Life of the Mind/Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship
01/01/2005: 1,006 words, approx. 3 pages
Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Life of the Mind. By John R. Sommerfeldt. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Newman Press/Paulist Press. 2004. Pp. xviii, 197. $19.95 paperback.) Bernard of Clairvaux: On the Spirituality of Relationship. By John R. Sommerfeldt. (Mahwah, New Jersey: Newman Press/Paulist Press....


Criticism and Essays
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Critical Essay by Thomas Merton
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In the following excerpt, Merton discusses Bernard's ideas regarding the active, contemplative, and apostolic lives in his Sermons on the Song of Songs.
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Critical Essay by Jean Leclercq
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In the following essay, Leclercq surveys scholarship on Bernard's life and major writings in the 800 years after his death and reflects on the sociological, psychological, and linguistic possibilities for further research.
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Critical Essay by G. L. J. Smerillo
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In the following essay, Smerillo explores the idea of Deus caritas est–God is love—as presented in Bernard's first twenty-one letters.
 


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