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The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness

Categorie	Engels
Boeknummer	#378325-UA7
Titel	The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
Auteur	Armstrong, Karen
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Anchor Books
Jaar van uitgave	2005
ISBN10	0385721277
ISBN13	9780385721271
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The New York Times bestselling author of A History of God delivers the gripping, inspirational story about her own search for God. “A story about becoming human, being recognized, finally recognizing oneself…. It fills the reader with hope.” —The Washington Post Book World In 1962, at age seventeen, Karen Armstrong entered a convent, eager to meet God. After seven brutally unhappy years as a nun, she left her order to pursue English literature at Oxford. But convent life had profoundly altered her, and coping with the outside world and her expiring faith proved to be excruciating. Her deep solitude and a terrifying illness–diagnosed only years later as epilepsy—marked her forever as an outsider. In her own mind she was a compl... (Lees verder)ete failure: as a nun, as an academic, and as a normal woman capable of intimacy. Her future seemed very much in question until she stumbled into comparative theology. What she found, in learning, thinking, and writing about other religions, was the ecstasy and transcendence she had never felt as a nun.
Pagina's	305
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 8,00

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