Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

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.

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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

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.

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Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

by Karen Armstrong
Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery

by Karen Armstrong

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780312340957
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Publication date: 02/19/2005
Edition description: Second Edition, Revised
Pages: 304
Sales rank: 112,654
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.68(d)

About the Author

After leaving her religious order in 1969, Karen Armstrong took a degree at Oxford University and taught modern literature. She has since become one of the world's foremost commentators on religious affairs and wrote bestseller A History of God. She has been successful as an author with other titles such as The Battle for God, The Case for God and Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life. Armstrong is a teacher at the Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism and the Training of Rabbis and Teachers, and an honorary members of the Association of Muslim Social Sciences, she lives in London.

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