Saint Bernard's Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus COM046040 Published: 06/12/2007

Published: 06/12/2007

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Saint Bernard's Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus COM046040 Published: 06/12/2007Saint 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 Monks, which explores the dynamic "steps" or "degrees" of both humility and pride. This chapter by Benedict could well be considered the spiritual basis of all