Saint Bernard's Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus COM046040 Finding his way out of

Finding his way out of the abyss after ten years was neither quick nor easy

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Berryman invites the reader into a creative process that explores what it means to be spiritually mature

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Published: 06/12/2007

Saint Bernard's Three-Course Banquet: Humility, Charity, and Contemplation in the De Gradibus COM046040 Finding his way out ofSaint 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