Pater Bernhardus

by Posset, Franz

• ISBN13: 9780879076689
• ISBN10: 0879076682
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-01-01
• Publisher: Cistercian Pubns

Table of Contents

Foreword	7	(8)
Michael Casey ocso
Preface	15	(6)
Bernhard Lohse
Author's Preface	21	(4)
Abbreviations	25	(2)
List of Plates	27	(4)
Introduction	31	(22)
Luther's Esteem For `Father Bernard' And His Indebtedness To The Monastic Tradition	53	(110)
Luther's `Father Bernard'	53	(38)
The Tradition of Monastic Theology	91	(42)
The Sacra Pagina Approach to Scripture Studies	133	(18)
`Someone with the Soul of Bernard Would Understand This Verse Well'	151	(6)
A `Wonderful Artist with Catachreses' and a Torturer of the Text	157	(6)
Grace Alone	163	(22)
Three Convictions: God's Mercy, Grace, and Free Gift	165	(11)
`What Part Do You Play... If It Is All God's Work?'	176	(9)
Faith Alone	185	(54)
The Priority of Faith	185	(13)
Kissing the Feet, Hand, and Mouth	198	(8)
`Christ Dwelling in Our Heart Through Faith'	206	(13)
`Humility, Virtue of Christ'---`Absolute Humility'	219	(5)
Knowledge of Self and Knowledge of God	224	(8)
Echoes of Bernard's Spirituality in Luther's `Magnificat'	232	(7)
Christ Alone	239	(102)
Affective Christocentrism	239	(8)
`Sweet on the Cross'---Theology of the Cross	247	(25)
Excursus: Luther's Further Use of Bernard's Sermon on the Song of Songs 61 (SC 61)	268	(4)
`Bernard Really Loved Christ's Incarnation'	272	(20)
Christ on the Judgment Seat and the Mercy Seat	292	(17)
Christ and Mary	309	(32)
Evangelization Alone	341	(38)
`A Foul Corruption Permeates the Whole Body of the Church'	337	(12)
`On Consideration'	349	(13)
`Triple Feeding' Alone	362	(17)
Conclusion	379	(18)
Bibliography	397	(26)
Index of Persons	423