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Bernard of Clairvaux |
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Bernard of Clairvaux Saint. ?1090--1153, French abbot and theologian, who founded the stricter branch of the Cistercians in 1115 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| Bernard of Clairvaux, the great Cistercian mystic, abbot, and Doctor of the Church, took Urban's controversial theology yet another step further and argued that killing Muslims fell under the category of "malicide" (the killing of evil) rather than "homicide. Shawn Madison Krahmer, "Adam, Eve, and Original Sin in the Works of Bernard of Clairvaux," Cistercian Studies Quarterly 37. The tension between what Leclercq calls the monastic and the scholastic Middle Ages peaked in the conflict between Bernard of Clairvaux and Peter Abelard over the issue of religion and philosophy. |
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