Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus
by
Bernard Bonowitz
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2013
Saint Bernard’s famous work, The Steps of Humility and Pride (in Latin, De gradibus humilitatis et superbiae), is a short book consisting of a mere fifty-seven paragraphs. In it, the Abbot of Clairvaux unpacks the doctrine of the very crucial chapter 7 of Saint Benedict’s sixth-century Rule for...