The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture

Jean Leclercq
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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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