Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual DiscoveryMacmillan, 1994 M11 15 - 281 páginas Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With refreshing honesty and clarity, the book takes readers on a revelatory adventure that begins with Armstrong's decision in the course of her spiritual training offers a fascinating view into a shrouded religious life, and a vivid, moving account of the spiritual coming age of one of our most loved and respected interpreters of religious. |
Contenido
Beginnings 1962 | 3 |
Tripton | 4 |
Postulant | 5 |
A Nun Takes the Veil | 6 |
Burial 19631965 | 169 |
9 | 183 |
Oxford | 215 |
Through the Narrow Gate Afterword 1980 | 243 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery Karen Armstrong Vista previa limitada - 2005 |
Términos y frases comunes
Adèle asked Birmingham boot room Bridget Cheez Whiz Christ church clothes community room convent course crucifix dark door eyes face father faults feel felt girl glanced God's Granny hair hand hard head heard Karen Karen Armstrong knelt knew laughed leave Lindsey looked Marie mind morning Mother Albert Mother Bianca Mother Constantia Mother Katherine Mother Praeterita Mother Provincial Mother Walter nailbrush never nodded novices noviceship nuns obedience Order Oxford parents parlor postulants Postulantship prayed prayer recreation refectory religious religious habit Reverend Mother round Second Vatican Council seemed shook sighed silence Sister Jocasta Sister Rebecca sitting Skipton smiled sounded spiritual stared stood strange suddenly superior talk tears tell terrible there's things thought told Tripton trying turned vocation voice vows waiting walked watched weeks wimple wondered words worried