The life of perfection: Points of view on the essence of the religious state

by Jean Leclercq

125 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1961

About the author

Dom Jean LeClercq, O.S.B. was a French Benedictine monk, and author of a classic study on Lectio Divina and the history of inter-monastic dialogue. As a young man, he entered Clervaux Abbey in Luxembourg, of which monastery he remained a monk until his death.

Reviews

[Brian Hohmeier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Leclercq offers a beautiful bricolage from the monastic witness to portray five or six images of the essence of its life—angelic, prophetic, apostolic, evangelical/Gospel and martyrial (could also count "paradisiacal")—most of which manage to [over?]index insistently to celibacy. In the end, that's as much as the book is.