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Christianity: Faith, Scripture and Tradition

The Love of Learning and the Desire for God

by Jean Leclercq

A study of monastic culture in the Middle Ages by a Benedictine scholar, first published in French in 1957. Leclercq describes how monks combined classical learning, scripture and contemplative prayer in a distinctive 'monastic theology'.

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