On Cleaving To God
Albert the Great's treatise on the highest perfection of the Christian life as complete detachment from all created things and firm adherence to God alone through love, emphasizing spiritual worship in spirit and truth.
17 Chapters
Table of Contents
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Translator's Introduction
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Chapter 1 On the highest and supreme perfection of man, in so far as it is possible in this life
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Chapter 2 How one can cling to and seek Christ alone, disdaining everything else
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Chapter 3 What the perfection of man consist of in this life
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Chapter 4 How man's activity should be purely in the intellect and not in the senses
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Chapter 5 On purity of heart which is to be sought above all things
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Chapter 6 That the devout man should cleave to God with naked understanding and will
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Chapter 7 How the heart should be gathered within itself
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Chapter 8 How a religious man should commit himself to God in all circumstances whatsoever
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Chapter 9 How much the contemplation of God is to be preferred to all other exercises
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Chapter 10 That one should not be concerned about feeling tangible devotion so much as about cleaving to God with one's will
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Chapter 11 How one should resist temptations and bear trials
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Chapter 12 How powerful the love of God is
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Chapter 13 The nature and value of prayer, and how the heart should be recollected within itself
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Chapter 14 That we should seek the verdict of our conscience in every decision
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Chapter 15 How contempt of himself can be produced in a man, and how useful it is
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Chapter 16 How God's Providence includes everything