Abstract
Abstract The chapter focuses on Bernard of Clairvaux’s inclusion of the Name ‘Jesus’ as part of a series of effusive sermons based on the Song of Songs. It then considers whether early Christian writers’ interest in the different names given to the second person of the Trinity shows sign of an emerging devotion to the Name of Jesus. Origen noticed how Christians chose the name ‘Jesus’ exclusively as invocation, in contrast to pagans who used a multiplicity of magical spells. John Chrysostom and Ephrem paid serious attention to the act of naming, but without focusing especially on the name ‘Jesus’. The Greek ‘Office of the most sweet Jesus’ and Anselm of Canterbury’s Meditatio ad concitandum timorem clearly show a sensibility towards the power of the Name of Jesus. The emergence of the devotion is therefore noticeable both in the Eastern and Western Christian traditions.
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