The life and ministry of a young man who lived in the presence of God, and brought an overwhelming sense of that presence to men.

    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.

    

    

    Essential reading for the fields of comparative liturgy and history of liturgy.

    

    

    

    

    I: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT AND THE FATHERS"Fr. Bouyer's is a mind erudite, brilliant, and endowed with teaching capacity: above all the mind of one with a deep experience of the life of the spirit. . . . This is a book to be read more than once and to be kept as a book of reference prepared by a fine scholar as well as an anthology from a master of quotation and of critical presentation." —Expository Times"A real achievement and a welcome addition to a better type of writingon Christian spirituality in English." — The Heythrop Journal"Should be bought for every Catholic library that has a shelf on Christianspirituality. Compared to it most of its companion studies will seem of tinsel." —Catholie HeraldVOL. II: THE SPIRITUALITY OF THE MIDDLE AGESThe only comprehensive guide available on the development of Christian spirituality in this most important period. The authors tackle their fascinating subject in two stages: from the sixth century to the beginning of the thirteenth (a continuation of the age of the Fathers), and from the twelfth to the dawn of the sixteenth century.VOL. Ill: ORTHODOX SPIRITUALITY ANDPROTESTANT AND ANGLICAN SPIRITUALITYThis last volume of A HISTORY OF CHRISTIAN SPIRITUALITY surveys Orthodox spirituality, the rebirth of Greek spirituality, and the development of Protestant and Anglican spirituality. A massive achievement, this volume brings into sharp focus a difficult and complex period of Church history.