Name: The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness (Armstrong, Karen)
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Author: Karen Armstrong
ISBN: 9780385721271

portada The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness (Armstrong, Karen)

Type

Physical Book

Publisher

Anchor

Author

Karen Armstrong

Year

2005

Language

English

Pages

305

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0385721277

ISBN13

9780385721271

Synopsis "The Spiral Staircase: My Climb out of Darkness (Armstrong, Karen)"

Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, The Spiral Staircase is an extraordinary account of an astonishing spiritual journey. 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.

Customers reviews

Anita BrionesFriday, November 27, 2015
" Una biografía inspiradora y profundamente humana. Karen busca sentido a la vida a través de una búsqueda religiosa dando una vuelta de 360 grados. Por eso una escala de caracol es el símbolo de esta vida. Gira y sube hacia un conocimiento profundo de Dios y el hombre. "
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