A History of The Christian Church (Part 37) Bernard of Clairvaux - The Voice That Called the Church Back.

About this episode

This episode explores the conflict between the intellectual approach to faith represented by Peter Abelard and the more traditional views advocated by Bernard of Clairvaux.

Send us Fan Mail Welcome: What happens when the church becomes too clever? What happens when faith is no longer something to be lived, but something to be analysed? That is the world we stepped into with Peter Abelard in our last episode. But not everyone welcomed that change, because, amid that rising tide of intellectual confidence, another voice began to speak. His name was Bernard of Clairvaux. And these two worldviews would collide. The world of the philosopher…. and the world of t...

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Host: Jeremy

Topics covered

• Christian Church
• intellectual confidence
• faith
• philosophy
• historical conflict

Keywords

• Christian Church
• Bernard of Clairvaux
• Peter Abelard
• faith
• philosophy
• intellectualism

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