On Loving God

Number of Chapters: 15

Length: 1 hour and 29 minutes

Language: English

On Loving God is one of the best-known and most influential works of Medieval Christian mysticism. Written at the request of one of the cardinals of Rome, it describes the four “levels” of love for God, and puts Christian devotion in the context of God’s love for mankind. Summary by Kirsten Ferreri.

Why we should love God, and the measure of that love (Kirsten Ferreri)

On loving God. How much God deserves love from man in recognition of His gifts, both material and spiritual: and how these gifts should be cherished without neglect of the Giver (Kirsten Ferreri)

What greater incentives Christians have, more than the heathen, to love God (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of those who find comfort in there collection of God, or are fittest for His love (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the Christian's debt of love, how great it is (Kirsten Ferreri)

A brief summary (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of love toward God not without reward: and how the hunger of man's heart cannot be satisfied with earthly things (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the first degree of love: wherein man loves God for self's sake (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the second and third degrees of love (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the fourth degree of love: wherein man does not even love self save for God's sake (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the attainment of this perfection of love only at the resurrection (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of love: out of a letter to the Carthusians (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the law of self-will and desire, of slaves and hirelings (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the law of the love of sons (Kirsten Ferreri)

Of the four degrees of love, and of the blessed state of the heavenly fatherland (Kirsten Ferreri)

The audiobook On Loving God falls under the genres of Christianity - Other. It is written by Saint Bernard Of Clairvaux.

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