Providence: The Story of a Fifty-Year Vision Quest (Quinn)
PROVIDENCE" is Quinn's fascinating memoir of hislife-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream inOmaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant inthe Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton.Later, his quest took him through the deep self-discovery of psychoanalysis, through a failed marriage during the turbulent and exciting 60s, to findingfulfillment with his wife Rennie and a career as a writer. In PROVIDENCE Quinn also details his rejection of organized religion and his personalrediscovery of what he says is humankind's first and only universalreligion, the theology that forms the basis for "Ishmael."
PROVIDENCE" is Quinn's fascinating memoir of hislife-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream inOmaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant inthe Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton.Later, his quest took him through the deep self-discovery of psychoanalysis, through a failed marriage during the turbulent and exciting 60s, to findingfulfillment with his wife Rennie and a career as a writer. In PROVIDENCE Quinn also details his rejection of organized religion and his personalrediscovery of what he says is humankind's first and only universalreligion, the theology that forms the basis for "Ishmael."
PROVIDENCE" is Quinn's fascinating memoir of hislife-long spiritual voyage. His journey takes him from a childhood dream inOmaha setting him on a search for fulfillment, to his time as a postulant inthe Trappist order under the guidance of eminent theologian Thomas Merton.Later, his quest took him through the deep self-discovery of psychoanalysis, through a failed marriage during the turbulent and exciting 60s, to findingfulfillment with his wife Rennie and a career as a writer. In PROVIDENCE Quinn also details his rejection of organized religion and his personalrediscovery of what he says is humankind's first and only universalreligion, the theology that forms the basis for "Ishmael."