The Love of Learning and The Desire God : : A Study of Monastic Culture / / 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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021] ©1982 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- 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