Spiral Staircase My Climb Out of Darkness

Name: Spiral Staircase My Climb Out of Darkness
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ISBN: 9780385721271

ISBN-10: 0385721277

ISBN-13: 9780385721271

Edition: 2004

Authors: Karen Armstrong

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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…

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List price: $16.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/22/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.550

Karen Armstrong is one of the foremost commentators on religious affairs in both Britain and the United States. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun and received a degree at Oxford University.



Preface


T. S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, I



Ash Wednesday



The Devil of the Stairs



I Renounce the Blessed Face



Consequently I Rejoice



Desiring This Man's Gift and That Man's Scope



The Usual Reign



Infirm Glory



To Turn Again