The Love of Learning and The Desire God : : A Study of Monastic Culture / / Jean Leclercq.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• VerfasserIn: Leclercq, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©1982
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; Introduction: Learning and Spirituality --; THE FORMATION OF MONASTIC CULTURE --; 1. The Conversion of St. Benedict --; 2. St. Gregory, Doctor of Desire --; 3. Cult and Culture --; THE SOURCES OF MONASTIC CULTURE --; 4. Devotion to Heaven --; 5. Sacred Learning --; 6. The Ancient Traditional Spirituality --; 7. Liberal Studies --; THE FRUITS OF MONASTIC CULTURE --; 8. Literary Genres --; 9. Monastic Theology --; 10. The Poem of the Liturgy --; Epilogue: Literature and the Mystical Life --; APPENDICES --; I. The Rule of St. Benedict and the Canticle of Canticles --; II. The Monk who Slept during the Office --; III. The Speculative Theology of Dom Bertrand --; IV. Monastic Theology --; V. St. Anselm --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780823296927; 9783111189604; 9783110743296
• DOI: 10.1515/9780823296927
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Jean Leclercq.

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.