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436p first edition hardback with illustrated brown dustjacket, one smallish closed tear to top of jacket and a little edgewear, name in ink, otherwise very good
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- PublisherLittlehampton Book Services Ltd
- Publication date1969
- ISBN 10 029717679X
- ISBN 13 9780297176794
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
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Against All Reason: Religious Life in the Modern World
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Littlehampton Book Services Ltd
(1969)
ISBN 10: 029717679X
ISBN 13: 9780297176794
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Book Description Hardback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR001941320
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Against All Reason: Religious Life in the Modern World
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson
(1969)
ISBN 10: 029717679X
ISBN 13: 9780297176794
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Used; Good. Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. This book is in good condition but will show signs of previous ownership. Please expect some creasing to the spine and/or minor damage to the cover. Grubby book may have mild dirt or some staining, mostly on the edges of pages. Aged book. Tanned pages and age spots, however, this will not interfere with reading. Missing jacket. The dust jacket of the book is missing. Seller Inventory # CHL9376127
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Against All Reason
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Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London
(1969)
ISBN 10: 029717679X
ISBN 13: 9780297176794
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Book Description Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gold title on black cloth boards which have small marks to lower edge but no wear. Internally there is foxing to fore edge, a name and date to front endpaper else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket has a small repaired closed tear and light wear to edges. xiii + 436 pages. 23 half-tone illustrations. Over a million and a quarter people lead the monastic and other forms of the religious life in the Western world - Benedictines, Trappists, Franciscans, Dominicans, Jesuits and members of many other orders and institutes. Their lives are still largely based on St. Augustine's doctrine of perfection, still regulated for the most part by a medieval timetable. For a Cistercian nun this means that the day begins when a bell rings in her dormitory at 2.45 a.m. to summon her to the Night Office. Only by living for a time in a monastery is it really possible to grasp the startling difference between that existence and life as the rest of us know it. For the first time in 1,400 years there are signs of a dramatic change in the direction, the structure and the justification of the religious life. In this deeply sympathetic survey of the religious life in the modern world Geoffrey Moorhouse describes the daily life of monks, nuns and other religious; the effects of authority and the demands of obedience. He explores the meaning and purpose of prayer, and of a vocation that leads men and women to renounce the prospect of marriage, to abandon all private possessions and submit to rigid rules of conduct for the rest of their lives. **** NOT EX LIB **** R1 Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 009519
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