Reading Group

Medieval Meditations for Modern Times

Readings for Friday, February 10: Selections from Bernard of Clairvaux’s On Loving God

Modern people often typify medieval spiritual writers as stern or corrupt, as using the illiterate to profit from their indulgences. How did medieval thinkers actually admonish their readers and understand humanity’s relationship to God? More importantly, what can we gain from the bounty of Christian literature that spanned this thousand-year period?
This reading group will study short selections of medieval spirituality and theology.
We will take a chronological approach toward understanding the medieval conception of the human condition and God’s intervention in history. Readings will be available on our website and at the Pascal’s Coffeehouse greeting table. Reading beforehand will be helpful but not required as we will read the selections at the beginning of each meeting.