Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training, she encountered a frightening and oppressive world, fossilized by tradition, which moulded, isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.
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Karen Armstrong. Through the Narrow Gate: A Nun’s Story
KAREN ARMSTRONG. Through the Narrow Gate
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CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION TO THIS EDITION
1 • BEGINNINGS 1962
2 • POINTERS 1956-1961
3 • A NEW LIFE 1962
4 • TRIPTON
5 • POSTULANT
6 • A NUN TAKES THE VEIL
7 • “THE DEATH I HAVE TO DIE”
8 • BURIAL 1963-1965
9 • THE SCHOLASTICATE 1965-1967
10 • OXFORD
11 • THROUGH THE NARROW GATE
AFTERWORD 1980
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Also by Karen Armstrong
About the Publisher
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A Nun’s Story
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“Him,” he said bitterly, “he’s a shark in business. An absolute bloody shark! He’d sell his own grandmother.”
“Shut up!” my mother laughed helplessly, “he’s coming this way. Hello, Sidney!”
