| An Infinity of Little Hours: Five Young Men and Their Trial of Faith in the Western World's Most Austere Monastic Order Contributor(s): Klein Maguire, Nancy (Author) |
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ISBN: 158648432X ISBN-13: 9781586484323 Publisher: PublicAffairs OUR PRICE: $20.89 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2007 Annotation: In this riveting chronicle, Maguire presents a uniquely intimate portrait of the customs and practices of a monastic order and follows the trial of faith of five young men in the Carthusians, the most rigorous and ascetic monastic order in the Western world. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Religion | Monasticism - Biography & Autobiography | Religious - Religion | Christianity - Catholic |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.88" H x 5.56" W x 8.26" (0.60 lbs) 304 pages |
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| Publisher Description: 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 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. |