Sermons on Conversion: On Conversion, a Sermon to Clerics and Lenten Sermons on the Psalm ‘He Who Dwells’

by Bernard of Clairvaux

Publishers:

Cistercian Publications; Liturgical Press

, 1981

Overview

The burgundian reformer abbot draws a picture of the perfect frontier bishop, and holds him up as a model for bishops everywhere. Conversion is used here not in the modern sense of transferring from on ecclesiastical body to another, but in the patristic and monastic sense of metanoia, turning one’s entire being wholly to God.

Product Details

• Title: Sermons on Conversion: On Conversion, a Sermon to Clerics and Lenten Sermons on the Psalm ‘He Who Dwells’
• Author: Bernard of Clairvaux
• Series: Cistercian Fathers Series
• Volume: 25
• Publishers: Cistercian Publications, Liturgical Press
• Print Publication Date: 1981
• Logos Release Date: 2020
• Pages: 282
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Catholic Church › Sermons; Sermons, English › Translation from Latin; Sermons, Latin › Translations into English
• Resource ID: LLS:BCSRMNSCNVRSN
• Resource Type: text.monograph.sermons
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-25T19:12:07Z

About Bernard of Clairvaux

Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153) was a French abbot, confessor, saint, and Doctor of the Church. He is honored as a founder of the Cistercian order because of his role in popularizing the order in the twelfth century. He takes his name from a monastery he founded on June 25, 1115—soon after joining the Cistercians. He named the monastery Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux. St. Bernard spent 40 years in cloister, but wielded considerable influence in the Church during that time—working to end a schism, combat heresy, and start the Second Crusade. After his death, he was canonized by Pope Alexander III in 1174. His numerous theological writings are so timeless and powerful that they earned him the title of Doctor of the Church in 1830, and Pope Pius XII wrote an encyclical on him, Doctor Mellifluus, in 1953.