Talks on the Song of Songs

Although the Song of Songs, a brief book in the old Testament, contains no explicit mention of God, the passionate love poetry became for Bernard a springboard into a major exposition of Scripture and an illuminated allegory of the spiritual life. Simply said, this gentle Saint found God incarnate in every word.

This volume containing excerpts from each of Bernard's 86 sermons, joins the Paraclete Christian Classics Series, a highly acclaimed series devoted to making the great writers of th...