Jean Leclercq --A Study in Monastic Culture

Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study in Monastic Culture-- book here.

Contents and Preface

Leclercq on Monastic Culture

Introduction:

Love of Letters and Learning

Learning and Spirituality

Inquiry and Seeking

Chapter One

Angusto Initio

"The gates are drawn apart"

Learned Monks

Supplemental

From Grace to Grace -- on Jean Leclercq's memoirs

Comments

The ideas of all things are in God

Substack is an interesting platform, and currently it is rather interesting to browse through the substacks of people who have ended up there -- sometimes, people whose writing I haven't seen for a long time. Fr Fessio might be a good example of that. But I am kind of stuck in the early 2000s, as far as social media goes, and I think I will have to stay here on Blogger with this site, and much as I admire focused blogs I don't think I can write one. I think if I'm going to post with any kind of regularity, it will have to be a patchwork or a mosaic. One of my earlier blogs I described as a commonplace book and some form of that is the most viable model, I think. That actually brings to mind what I was reading this morning -- St Thomas Aquinas on Ideas -- this is from Msr Glenn's Tour of the Summa, which is available online. He says: An idea or concept is the mind's grasp of an essence. It is the understanding o...

The Wind and Where it Blows

There was a recent commentary by Massimo Faggioli at Commonweal called Vatican II at Napa . In the context of a somewhat critical look at the Napa conference, the article referenced the talk given by Bishop Erik Varden of Trondheim , who is as Faggioli says one of the most interesting figures in a European Catholicism that is emancipating itself from the dominance of the French, Belgian, and German conciliar theology. Here is the written version of Bishop Varden's talk . Here is what he calls a brief antiphonal response of his to Faggioli's article. Here is his conference on the Creed , which is as he notes the main feature of his attendance at the conference.... I think the comments on Vatican II were part of a panel he participated in ? There are a few things that came to my mind when I was reading through this interchange. One is the civil tone between two Catholic thinkers who come from very different contexts. ...

The Exogorth's Interior

"This is no cave!" -- Princess Leia One facet of Cardinal Newman's perception in regard to Ideas and development of doctrine is that we who are downstream from the theologians and philosophers are given a language and a kind of mythology associated with that language, and these things comprise the tools we are able to use or sometimes transcend. This seems to tie in a bit with what Bishop Varden said about generations in regard to the reception of Vatican II . The first generation is in the middle of the event, the second generation is trying to consolidate or dispute that legacy, and the third generation is sometimes baffled by the preoccupations of their elders. But they are still holders of the legacy the thing has left. They have to decide what it is going to mean to them -- what is ephemeral, situational, and what is durable. For example -- an example that comes to mind after reading various takes on Ne...

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