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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.
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The Love of Learning and the Desire for God : A Study of Monastic Culture Leclercq, Jean. Fordham University Press 0823204073 9780823204076 9780585195438 English Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 6001500, Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Christian literature, Early--History and criticism, Theology-History--Middle Ages, 600-1500. 1982 BX2470.L413 1982eb 255 Monasticism and religious orders--History--Middle Ages, 6001500, Learning and scholarship--History--Medieval, 500-1500, Christian literature, Early--History and criticism, Theology-History--Middle Ages, 600-1500.
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The Love of Learning and the Desire for God A Study of Monastic Culture Jean Leclercq, O.S.B. Translated by Catharine Misrahi
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Disclaimer: This book contains characters with diacritics. When the characters can be represented using the ISO 8859-1 character set (http://www.w3.org/TR/images/latin1.gif), netLibrary will represent them as they appear in the original text, and most computers will be able to show the full characters correctly. In order to keep the text searchable and readable on most computers, characters with diacritics that are not part of the ISO 8859-1 list will be represented without their diacritical marks. © Copyright 1961, 1974, 1982 by FORDHAM UNIVERSITY PRESS All rights reserved LC 60-53004 ISBN 0-8232-0407-3 A translation of L'Amour des lettres et le désir de Dieu: Initiation aux auteurs monastiques du moyen áge (Paris: Les Éditions du Cerf, 1957) PRINTING HISTORY: First Edition, 1961 Mentor Omega, paperback, 1962 Second Edition, 1974 Reprinted, 1977 Third Edition, 1982 Reprinted, 1985 Reprinted, 1988 Reprinted, 1993 Reprinted, 1994 Reprinted, 1996 Reprinted, 1998 Leclercq, Jean, 1911 The love of learning and the desire for God; a study of monastic culture. Translated by Catherine Misrahi. 415 p. 23. Translation of Amour des lettres et le désir de Dieu. Includes bibliography. 1. Monasticism and religious ordersMiddle Ages. 2. Christian literature, EarlyHist. & crit. 3. TheologyMiddle Ages. I. Title. BX2470.L413 271.0902 60-53004 Printed in the United States of America
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CONTENTS
Abbreviations
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Preface
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Introduction: Learning and Spirituality
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The Formation of Monastic Culture 1 The Conversion of St. Benedict
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2 St. Gregory, Doctor of Desire
25
3 Cult and Culture
37
The Sources of Monastic Culture 4 Devotion to Heaven
53
5 Sacred Learning
71
6 The Ancient Traditional Spirituality
89
7 Liberal Studies
112
The Fruits of Monastic Culture 8 Literary Genres
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9 Monastic Theology
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10 The Poem of the Liturgy
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Epilogue: Literature and the Mystical Life
255
Appendices I. The Rule of St. Benedict and the Canticle of Canticles
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II. The Monk who Slept during the Office
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III. The Speculative Theology of Dom Bertra