In Theologizing Friendship the author aims to revitalize Jean Leclercqs defense of monastic theology while expanding and qualifying some of the central theses expounded in Leclercqs magisterial The Love of Learning and the Desire for God. The current work contributes to a revised and updated status quaestionis concerning the theological relationship between classical monasticism and scholasticism construed in more systematic and speculative terms than those of Leclercq rendered here through the