I'm Not Very Pious, Father Wesley, but I Didn't Make That Mistake, Please Don't

Bernard of clairvaux is one of, and he's sometimes considered sort of an early scholastic. The way he writes is really clear and approachable for a lot of people, in a way that may be aquinas a or other later scholastics just seems too dense. So therefore, it's sort of berner gets the thumbs up in some ways,. which is also interesting, because a bernard's entire conception of grace, as we'll talk about, is intimately connected with a concept of merit.