04054cam a2200889 4500 533193376 TxGeo 20210918120000.0 ||||||s2007||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307429391 0307429393 B000XU4TYK Amazon cda4b222-d4fa-40af-9e60-f260ff432d2a OverDrive (Reserve ID) 4891 4891 4891 457220 OverDrive (Product ID) TxGeo Armstrong, Karen, 1944- The Spiral Staircase [Libby] : My Climb Out of Darkness. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2007. Education. Christian. Biography. spiritual. Faith. Nuns. autobiographies. Monasticism. philosophy. mental health. atheism. God. Religion. Autobiography. Memoirs. women. Inspirational. inspiration. self help. spiritual journey. afterlife. biographies. Spirituality. Essays. mental illness. depression. memoir. epilepsy. Christianity. Buddhism. theology. biographies and memoirs. religious books. Karen Armstrong. biographies of famous people. memoir books. autobiography books. spiral staircase. unique gifts for men. the staircase. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 378kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Religion & Spirituality. Nonfiction. HTML:Gripping, revelatory, and inspirational, <i>The Spiral Staircase</i> 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. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-16 20:00:03. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CDA/4B2/22/SpiralStaircaseMyClimbOutofDarkness9780307429391.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CDA4B222-D4FA-40AF-9E60-F260FF432D2A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CDA/4B2/22/SpiralStaircaseMyClimbOutofDarkness9780307429391.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CDA4B222-D4FA-40AF-9E60-F260FF432D2A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/CDA/4B2/22/SpiralStaircaseMyClimbOutofDarkness9780307429391.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=CDA4B222-D4FA-40AF-9E60-F260FF432D2A&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read) QS5