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The Love of Learning and The Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture

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The Love of Learning and the Desire for God is composed of a series of lectures given to young monks at the Institute of Monastic Studies at Sant'Anselmo in Rome during the winter of 1955-56.

Author(s): Jean Leclercq
Edition: 1
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Year: 1982

Language: English
Pages: 317

The Love of Learning and the Desire for God : A Study of Monastic Culture author : Leclercq, Jean. publisher : Fordham University......Page 1
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 6
PREFACE......Page 7
INTRODUCTION......Page 9
THE FORMATION OF MONASTIC CULTURE......Page 16
1 The Conversion of St. Benedict......Page 17
2 St. Gregory, Doctor of Desire......Page 32
3 Cult and Culture......Page 45
THE SOURCES OF MONASTIC CULTURE......Page 60
4 Devotion to Heaven......Page 61
5 Sacred Learning......Page 80
6 The Ancient Traditional Spirituality......Page 98
7 Liberal Studies......Page 124
8 Literary Genres......Page 169
9 Monastic Theology......Page 212
10 The Poem of the Liturgy......Page 262
EPILOGUE......Page 283
APPENDICES......Page 299
the Rule of St. Benedict and the Canticle of Canticles......Page 300
The Monk Who Slept During the Office......Page 301
The Speculative Theology of Dom Bertrand......Page 302
Monastic Theology......Page 303
St. Anselm......Page 304
INDEX......Page 305