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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
An Infinity of Little Hours Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order
Author: Nancy Klein Maguire
In 1960, five young men arrived at the imposing gates of Parkminster, the largest center 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 behavior and lifestyle since its founding in 1084. An Infinity of Little Hour...  more » is a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order almost entirely unknown until now. After five years each man must face a choice: if they stay to make "solemn profession" they will never leave. But if they leave, they will be turning their backs on a journey to find God in solitude--their life's ambition. A remarkable investigative work, the book combines first-hand testimony with unique source material to describe the Carthusian life. And in the final chapter, describing a reunion forty years after the events described elsewhere in the book, Nancy Klein Maguire reveals which of the five made it to the top of the mountain.
ISBN-13: 9781586484323
ISBN-10: 158648432X
Publication Date: 3/30/2007
Pages: 264
Edition: New Ed
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Publisher: PublicAffairs
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