medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
You ask for possible Cistercian connections in the use of I Cor 13:12. There is a clear one in St Bernard Sermon XVIII.6 on the Song of Songs: There is a citation in Cuthbert Butler's Western Mysticism: Neglected Chapters in the History of Religion. 2nd ed, Constable, 1927, p 175-6:
"The soul slumbering in contemplation dreams God; for though a mirror and in an enigma, and not face to face, does it behold Him; and it warms with the love of something conjectured rather than seen, momentarily, as in the flash of a passing spark, and touched scantily and barely."
So Bernard uses the verse to speak of the way the soul beholds God in contemplation.
Gordon Plumb
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