The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness
| AUTHOR | Armstrong, Karen; Armstrong, Karen |
| PUBLISHER | Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (02/22/2005) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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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 complete 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.
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 complete 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.
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ISBN-13:
9780385721271
ISBN-10:
0385721277
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Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
305
Carton Quantity:
24
Product Dimensions:
5.20 x 0.80 x 7.80 inches
Weight:
0.60 pound(s)
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Price on Product,
Ikids
Country of Origin:
US
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BISAC Categories
Biography & Autobiography | Religious
Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures
Biography & Autobiography | Spirituality
Dewey Decimal:
B
Library of Congress Control Number:
2003047550
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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 complete 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.
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 complete 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.
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