ABSTRACT This article explores themes connected to the spiritual and the material, especially in connection with order and economy, in the thought of the Cistercian abbot Bernard of Clairvaux (1090/1–1153). It argues that these themes are particularly useful to an analysis of Bernard’s articulation of the challenge of human existence in a fallen world, and the proper role of the Church, its leaders and members, in response to wider concerns for Christian salvation and the material circumstances of twelfth-century Europe. Three treatises provide case studies for this approach, contextualised with discussion of economy in the Christian tradition, and its implications more widely in Bernard’s writing.

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克莱尔沃的伯纳德，物质和精神秩序以及救赎的经济

摘要本文探讨了与克莱尔沃（Clairvaux）的西多会住持伯纳德（1090 / 1–1153）的思想相关的主题，特别是与精神和物质有关的主题。它认为，这些主题对于分析伯纳德对堕落世界中人类生存挑战的表述以及教会，其领导人和成员在应对基督徒救赎和物质环境的广泛关注时所应发挥的作用特别有用。十二世纪的欧洲。三篇论文提供了这种方法的案例研究，并结合了基督教传统中的经济讨论及其在伯纳德著作中的广泛含义。