The spiral staircase : my climb out of darkness / Karen Armstrong.

By: Armstrong, Karen, 1944-Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2005Edition: 1st Anchor Books edDescription: xxii, 305 p. ; 21 cmISBN: 0385721277 (pbk.); 9780385721271 (pbk.)Subject(s): Armstrong, Karen, 1944- | Ex-nuns -- BiographyDDC classification: 200/.92 | 921 LOC classification: BX4668.3.A75 | A3 2005Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
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
Summary: The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.
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Originally published: New York : A. A. Knopf, 2004.

The author relates her decision to leave her convent after failing to find religious fulfillment, her struggles with depression and epilepsy, her realization of her calling, and her career working with sacred texts.

T. S. Eliot, Ash-Wednesday, I xxi -- 1 Ash Wednesday 3 -- 2 The Devil of the Stairs 46 -- 3 I Renounce the Blessed Face 78 -- 4 Consequently I Rejoice 120 -- 5 Desiring This Man's Gift and That Man's Scope 159 -- 6 The Usual Reign 192 -- 7 Infirm Glory 224 -- 8 To Turn Again 264.

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