Month: October 2018

Cries for Reform in the Tradition – Bernard of Clairvaux (and Pope Eugenius III)

In the previous post, we saw Bernard of Clairvaux’s way of confronting the spiritual and moral failures of those seeking and holding clerical offices. In On Consideration to Pope Eugenius, his aim is the reform of the papacy. Writing between 1148-53, Bernard sets forth what Oliver and Joan Lockwood O’Donovan call a “mirror” of the papal office.… Read More Cries for Reform in the Tradition – Bernard of Clairvaux (and Pope Eugenius III)

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Cries for Reform in the Tradition – Bernard of Clairvaux

by Matthew Gaetano Recent events–political and especially ecclesiastical–have made discussions of fourteenth-century political theology, seventeenth-century Augustinianism, nineteenth-century Romanticism, etc., seem less than timely or appropriate. In light of this situation, I thought that it might be fruitful to see how saints, theologians, and clergymen in the past articulated their cries for reform. A friend recently… Read More Cries for Reform in the Tradition – Bernard of Clairvaux

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