
Spiritual direction involves two willing participants: a director and a person or persons being directed. It happens more in the reality of life rather than in esoteric statements in books worth quoting from generation to generation. To understand Bernard of Clairvaux as a spiritual director, a basic understanding of the real Bernard, set in time and culture, is necessary. Modern readers have very...
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common with medieval Europeans. Language, worldview, culture, politics, and economics are foreign to us. Other than an understanding of God, we share with medievals only ourhuman identity.Michael C. Voigts sets in context the spiritual direction St. Bernard offers in his letters by introducing readers to the monk in his twelfth-century European world.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsChapter 1: Bernard in the Twelfth-Century WorldChapter 2: Bernard and the Direction of SoulsChapter 3: An Introduction to the Letters of Bernard of ClairvauxChapter 4: Bernard’s Letters to MonksChapter 5: Bernard’s Letters to AbbotsChapter 6: Bernard’s Letters to BishopsChapter 7: Bernard’s Letters to PopesChapter 8: Bernard’s Letters to LaityChapter 9: Bernard’s Letters as a Methodology for Twelfth-Century Ecclesiastical ReformAbbreviations for the Works of Bernard of ClairvauxBibliography