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An Infinity of Little Hours - Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Paperback, New edition) Loot Price: R522
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An Infinity of Little Hours - Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order (Paperback, New edition)

Nancy Maguire

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In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest centre of the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world: the Carthusians. This is the story of their five-year journey into a society virtually unchanged in its behaviour and lifestyle since its foundation in 1084. An Infinity of Little Hours is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. It is also a drama of the men's struggle as they avoid the 1960s,the decade of hedonism, music, fashion, and amorality,and enter an entirely different era and a spiritual world of their own making. After five years each must face a choice: to make "solemn profession" and never leave Parkminster or to turn his back on his life's ambition to find God in solitude. A remarkable investigative work, the book combines first-hand testimony with unique source material to describe the Carthusian life. And in the final chapter, which recounts a reunion forty years after the events described elsewhere in the book, Nancy Klein Maguire reveals which of the five succeeded in their quest, and which did not.

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Imprint: PublicAffairs,U.S.
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2007
First published: March 2007
Authors: Nancy Maguire
Dimensions: 210 x 140 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
Edition: New edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-58648-432-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious institutions & organizations > Religious communities & monasticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Aspects of religions (non-Christian) > Religious institutions & organizations > Religious communities & monasticism
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church > General
Books > Christianity > Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church
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LSN: 1-58648-432-X
Barcode: 9781586484323

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