DC27 St. Bernard of Clairvaux pt 2 – The Doctors of the Church: The Charism of Wisdom w/ Dr. Matthew Bunson
Summary: <br> <br> Dr. Matthew Bunson discusses the life, times and teachings of St. Bernard of Clairvaux pt 2<br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=bernard+of+clairvaux+born&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgwoHnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYaWWHaylX5Ban5BTiqQKirOz7NKyi_K-__b8emj_km79d69MKv5kX-MoVpKEQByPdmgQQAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CMIBEOgTKAEwFg">Born</a>: 1090, <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=fontaine+l+e+s+dijon&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgwEHnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYYSF4hlnJtWVJitJZadbKVfkJpfkJMKpIqK8_OskvKL8mpYu256uLl2v4u6uzltZ-z_q-frggBzsFloTQAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CMMBEJsTKAIwFg">Fontaine-lès-Dijon, France</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=bernard+of+clairvaux+died&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgy4HnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYaWfHaylX5Ban5BTqp-SmpyamJxakp8QWpRcX6eVUpmaor_W8PlEd45qdMueYYZZR3kWOsgvhIArgESa0oAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CMcBEOgTKAEwFw">Died</a>: August 20, 1153, <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=clairvaux+abbey+aube&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgzkHnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYYSmJWcZZSuJZ-dbKVfkJpfkJOqn5KanJpYnJoSX5BaVJyfZ5WSmZpSdkWjZumjfQHXlr9_ESkroFFWzFoNAI8n75RUAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CMgBEJsTKAIwFw">Clairvaux Abbey, France</a><a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=bernard+of+clairvaux+books&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgwYHnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYaWVHaylX5Sfn62fmJpSUZ-kRWIXayQn5dTecY_5F7UGYYpOgrV2nYrVnnd5Ov7CAAXvbT0RQAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CMwBEOgTKAEwGA">Books</a>: <a class="fl" href="https://www.google.com/search?biw=1482&bih=747&q=the+two+fold+knowledge+bernard&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAGOovnz8BQMDgwkHnxCHfq6-gWG6ZYYSF4hllpVTVWKmJZWdbKWflJ-frZ9YWpKRX2QFYhcr5OflVN5QMVo8Z-mMgldfojpyZLLVtste_AwAM7tKi1EAAAA&sa=X&ei=sQp2U5q3IsWcyATIt4HIBg&sqi=2&ved=0CM0BEJsTKAIwGA">Two-Fold Knowledge</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> For more on St. Bernard of Clairvaux and his teachings<br> <br> From <a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20091021_en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Vatican.va, </a>an excerpt from the teachings o<a href="http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/audiences/2009/documents/hf_ben-xvi_aud_20091021_en.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">f Pope Benedict XVI General Audience 2009</a><br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> I would now like to reflect on only two of the main aspects of Bernard’s rich doctrine: they concern Jesus Christ and Mary Most Holy, his Mother. His concern for the Christian’s intimate and vital participation in God’s love in Jesus Christ brings no new guidelines to the scientific status of theology. However, in a more decisive manner than ever, the Abbot of Clairvaux embodies the theologian, the contemplative and the mystic. Jesus alone Bernard insists in the face of the complex dialectical reasoning of his time Jesus alone is “honey in the mouth, song to the ear, jubilation in the heart (mel in ore, in aure melos, in corde iubilum)”. The title Doctor Mellifluus, attributed to Bernard by tradition, stems precisely from this; indeed, his praise of Jesus Christ “flowed like honey”. In the extenuating battles between Nominalists and Realists two philosophical currents of the time the Abbot of Clairvaux never tired of repeating that only one name counts, that of Jesus of Nazareth. “All food of the soul is dry”, he professed, “unless it is moistened with this oil; insipid, unless it is seasoned with this salt. What you write has no savour for me unless I have read Jesus in it” (In Canticum Sermones XV, 6: PL 183, 847).
