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8w32r496w67	James Upton DeFrancis	My Beloved Is Mine and I Am His: Self-Knowledge in the Theology of Bernard of Clairvaux	2012		.txt	text/plain	383	10	43	Previous scholarship on Bernard's doctrine of self-knowledge has correctly emphasized the significance he attaches to humbling self-knowledge, or the soul's honest self-recognition as a disfigured image of God, in the soul's first conversion and the initial stages of its return to God. It is precisely because he recognizes the seductive power of this self-deception that Bernard so frequently insists upon the soul's humbling recognition of its own sad disfigurement as the prerequisite for its return to God.	cache/8w32r496w67.txt	txt/8w32r496w67.txt