Honey and Salt
Selected Spiritual Writings of Bernard of Clairvaux
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- Paperback
496 pages
- Release Date
1 May 2007
Summary
A selection of the writings of one of the greatest men of his age, a 12th-century monk and passionate reformer who has had a profound influence on believers for more than eight centuries.
Bernard of Clairvaux, the twelfth-century monk who wrote that “Jesus is honey in the mouth, melody in the ear, a cry of joy in the heart,” was both a mystic and a reformer. His writings reveal a mystical theology that Thomas Merton, a monastic heir to Bernard’s Cistercian reform, says “explains what …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780375725654 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0375725652 |
| Author: | St. Bernard |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Release Date: | 1 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 366g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 27mm |
| Series: | Vintage Spiritual Classics |
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St. Bernard
St. Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153) was born in Burgundy, France. He founded hundreds of monasteries and was canonized soon after his death.
John F. Thornton is a literary agent, former publishing executive, and the coeditor, with Katharine Washburn, of Dumbing Down (1996) and Tongues of Angels, Tongues of Men. He lives in New York City.
Susan B. Varenne is a New York City teacher with a strong avocational interest in and wide experience of spiritual literature. She holds an M.A. from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
James J. O’Donnell is a professor of classics and provost of Georgetown University. He has served as president of the American Philological Association and is a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He has published widely on the cultural history of the late antique Mediterranean world. His most recent book is Augustine- A New Biography (2005).
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