Jean Leclercq, OSB
This article is about the 20th century scholar. For other people with this name, see Leclercq. For Jean Leclerc (1657-1736), see Jean Leclerc (theologian).
Jean LeClercq, O.S.B. (31 January 1911, Avesnes – 27 October 1993, Clervaux), also known as Dom Jean Leclercq, was a Benedictine monk, and author of a classic study on Lectio Divina and the history of inter-monastic dialogue.[1][2]
Dom LeClercq is perhaps best known for his seminal work The Love of Learning and the Desire for God: A Study of Monastic Culture.
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Further reading
- The most complete bibliography of his work may be found in E Rozanne Elder, ed, The Joy of Learning and the Love of God: Studies in Honor of Jean Leclercq, CS 160, (Kalamazoo, MI, 1995), ppp414-498.
- Leclercq, Jean, Memoirs: From Grace to Grace, (Petersham, MA, 2000) [Leclercq's memoirs]
- Leclercq, Jean (1961). The love of learning and the desire for God: A study of monastic culture. New York: Fordham University Press. ISBN 0-8232-0407-3. Check date values in:
|year= / |date= mismatch(help) [The French original was published in 1957] - Bernard of Clairvaux: Studies Presented to Dom Jean Leclercq, 1973 ISBN 0-87907-823-5
- Cultura umanistica e desiderio di Dio": Dom Jean Leclercq, Sansoni (Italy), 1965.
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