The Bridal-Mystical Motif in Bernard of Clairvaux and Martin Luther

• Autores: Jack Kilcrease
• Localización: Journal of ecclesiastical history, ISSN 0022-0469, Vol. 65, Nº 2, 2014, págs. 263-279
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This article discusses Martin Luther's appropriation of the tradition of bridal-mysticism, and contrasts it with that of Bernard of Clairvaux. According to Bernard, through the power of divine grace, the human person and God both come to find each other objects of mutual desire. By contrast, Luther, in Freedom of a Christian (1520), uses the bridal motif to describe the divine-human relationship as one of promise and trust. In this, the Reformer both appropriates and significantly reinterprets the bridal-mystical motif in accordance with the claims of his newly-minted Reformation theology of justification through faith.