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The Love of Learning and The Desire God: A Study of Monastic Culture Paperback – January 1, 1982

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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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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Fordham University Press; 3rd Revised ed. edition (January 1, 1982)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0823204073
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0823204076
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 14.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.06 x 0.67 x 8.98 inches

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Jeff Zoroya

Well Written and Insightful

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Leclercq’s book is both insightful and a pleasure to read. He is clearly well versed in the subject matter and writes with an engaging style.

He does well at communicating the intangible in a tangible way. For example the impact of prayer on learning or the difference between insight derived from reasoning versus insight derived from prayer.

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Chuck Huff

Scholarly, but with a heart for the real desires of monastics

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2014

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Don't expect this to be a devotional book, but do expect an excellent introduction to monastic culture and its scholarly and contemplative ways. Be prepared to get highlights of important (and some obscure) authors and their approaches. These are done in a way that gives you enough to follow the story, but also sends you to your search engine of choice in a desire to learn more. Be prepared to stumble across Latin and German phrases in the text, but one can get through these mostly by depending on context. It is scholarly, but with a heart for the real desires of monastics, even those living today.

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Eric McLuhan

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Dispels the notion that there was a "Dark age" prior to either the first or second medieval renaissances. This essential account of monasticism to the present time shows that pre-Christian literature was kept alive and studied closely in the monasteries as a necessary adjunct to Scriptural learning and interpretation. Most readable.

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Joseph Gryniewicz

Densely packed with insights into monastic and patristic thought and practice.

Reviewed in the United States on December 26, 2016

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Every page opens up new herizons of insight into monastic culture and history.

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Paul M.

Great book

Reviewed in the United States on July 10, 2013

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This is a classic work by one of the great scholars of the 20th century. every spiritual bookshelf needs a copy

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Classic.

Reviewed in the United States on September 12, 2015

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A classic reader in the subject.

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Timothy Cho

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great information on 12 century.

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Didaskalex

Sacred Learning and Reviving the Love for God

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2008

"Read the acts of Sts. Anthony, Macarius, Pachomius..., the Egyptian Monks, of those who lived in the Holy Land or in the Thebaid. ...implant in the darkness of the West and in the cold of Gaul the light of the East and the ancient fervor of Egyptian religious life." Jean Leclerq, Ancient traditional Spirituality

Latin Monastic Tradition:
Two of the most influential in Spirituality as Evagrius Ponticus, and John Cassian who established the first European monasteries according to the Pachomian ideal, and wrote the first Monastic manuals, the institutes and the Conferences. "If Benedict created the institutional frame of Latin monasticism, then Cassian helped define its inner life, its mystical aspirations," wrote Wm. Harmless, Desert Christians.
The Benedictine rule of Saint Benedict of Nursia (6th century), formed the basis of life in most monastic communities until the twelve century. The schema faded out until St. Bernard of Cleurvaux restored it to its original zenith. Among the principal monastic orders that evolved in the Middle Ages were the Carthusians in the eleventh century and the Cistercians in the twelfth; the Mendicant orders, or Friars, Dominicans, Franciscans, and Carmelites arose in the 13th century.

Theognosis, Learning Spirituality:
Theognosis, the knowing of God, has always been a means for a unity in love which transcends all knowledge. This ultimate end is union with God or, partaking in the nature of God, the theosis of church Fathers Ireneus and Athanasius. The eastern tradition whose masters were Origen, Evagrius, and Dionysius, the pseudo Areopagite, has never made a definite distinction between mysticism and theology; between personal experience of the divine mysteries. In a certain sense all theology is mystical, inasmuch as it shows forth the divine mystery of revelation. On the other hand, mysticism is frequently opposed to theology as an unutterable mystery which surpasses our understanding faculties to any perception of sense or of intelligence, to be lived rather than known. We should, look for a profound change, an inner transformation of spirit, enabling us to experience it mystically, far from being mutually opposed, theology and mysticism support and completement each other.

Leclercq presents his Study:
Having declaring himself, a supporter of twelfth-century monastic theology, Dom Leclercq presents his book in ten chapters, grouped in three sections, addressing its formation, sources and its fruits. Right from the beginning, in a concise introduction, Dom Leclercq presents a distinction between monasticism and scholasticism, such distinction is radically clear in the three parts of his study of the monastic Culture. Roman Catholic Monasticism reached its apex in the twelfth century when, an often quoted, scathing condemnation of Byzantine monasticism was launched by Eustathius, bishop of Thessalonica. In Leclercq's eye twelfth-century Latin monasticism reached its apex in Bernard of Clairvaux. Most theological interest, is devoted to the 13th century, whose writers were scholastics, academics of ecclesiastic background. Leclercq keeps isolating monastic from scholastic theology, whose target was to acquire knowledge, pursuing a venue of objective analysis of his inquiry. The monastic, were just eager to know God, in subjective means of his own existence and within Scripture, earning Leclercq support within the two groups. Scholastic theology that stemmed from the University of Paris was debated orally before it was written. Monastic theology, based on patristic writings was literate from the start.

Sources of Monastic Culture:
Leclercq definition of the sources of monastic culture, in four headings: devotion to heaven, sacred learning, ancient traditional spirituality, and liberal studies. Defining that experience which "induces the desire to reach the culmination of this experience," Medieval monastic culture depended on two sources, textual literary sources absorbed in meditative reading, and experience. Summarizing the content of monastic culture her pronounced in two words: grammar and spirituality. The most important of the themes which kept the monks faithful to the vision of Gregory, was their devotion to heaven, clearly traced in their writings under the topics of the heavenly Jerusalem of which the monastery is a mundane icon, to which is attached the Old Testament concepts of Temple and Tabernacle, mediaeval monks were fond of dwelling on Christ's ascension and of his Transfiguration, similar to Eastern Orthodoxy.

Dom Jean Leclercq:
"Dom Jean Leclercq, OSB, a monk of Clairvaux Abbey in Luxemburg, died on October 27, 1993 in his monastery. For more than sixty years he resolutely used his great erudition for the service of the future of monasticism. He united together a confidence in monastic tradition which he knew so well and a great hope in contemporary humanity, its bold research and its spiritual possibilities which frequently remained unexplored. He was remarkable in the fact that, without holding any particular official place in the monastic order, yet his influence was definitive in many areas." Fr. de Bethune, In Memoriam

A Concise Review:
The book is what the subtitle proclaims it to be: a study of monastic culture, in medieval Europe. The reader who is foreign to the main outlines of monastic history is advised to read "Seek Learning and Revive the Love for God." To read a prologue to the subject and a full review click on the Guides listed below this review.

Evolution of the Monastic Ideal from the Earliest Times Down to the
Desert Christians: An Introduction to the Literature of Early Monasticism

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