Through the Narrow Gate, Revised: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery"Read and cherished by thousands all over the world since it was first published in 1981, Through the Narrow Gate takes the reader on a spiritual journey that began one September day in 1962 when Karen Armstrong said good-bye to her family at London's King's Cross station and journeyed on to the convent in Tripton to become a nun. Through the Narrow Gate is by turns a book of spiritual revelation and an intimate look at life inside the cloistered walls of the convent."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
Introduction to This Edition Beginnings 1962 | 1 |
Tripton | 4 |
Postulant | 5 |
A Nun Takes the Veil | 6 |
The Death I Have to Die | 135 |
Burial 19631965 | 169 |
The Scholasticate 19651967 | 185 |
Oxford | 186 |
10 | 215 |
11 | 243 |
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