Some of you have been asking what it's like here at Princeton Seminary. I think this quotation from Richard of St. Victor about sums it up. It might shock you to learn that Princeton is very much about the development of piety. This is an excerpt from one of my assigned readings.
"It is vain that we grow in riches of divine knowledge unless by them the fire of love is increased in us. For love arising from knowledge and knowledge coming from love must always grow in us, each ministering to the increase of the other by mutual growth, and love and knowledge developing in turn."
-----Richard of St. Victor, from "Selections for Contemplation"
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That's awesome you're reading moral/ascetical theology... especially from the St. Victor school. Hopefully you'll also get to Hugh of St. Victor and the great St. Bernard himself. Good stuff.
My favorite books on this subject: Martin Thornton's 'English Spirituality' and Louis Bouyer's 'The Cistercian Heritage'.
1Now concerning[a](A) food offered to idols: we know that(B) "all of us possess knowledge." This "knowledge"(C) puffs up,(D) but love builds up. 2(E) If anyone imagines that he knows something,(F) he does not yet know as he ought to know. 3But if anyone loves God,(G) he is known by God. 1 Cor. 8
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