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OverviewThe gripping story of one mans remarkable spiritual journeyA most dangerous criminal, convicted of five violent murders, Clayton Anthony Fountain was condemned in 1974 to live out his days in solitary confinement at the highest-security prison in the U.S. Without ever again emerging from his cell, however, Fountain underwent a profound spiritual Full Product DetailsAuthor: W. Paul Jones , Helen PrejeanPublisher: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Imprint: William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 0.163kg ISBN: 9780802866516ISBN 10: 0802866514 Pages: 122 Publication Date: 02 September 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsClayton Fountain was regarded as a ruthless killer beyond anyone's power to save. Yet in the stillness of his solitary confinement entombed alive in a cell of concrete and steel God was at work redeeming and remaking Clayton Fountain. I am grateful to Father Paul for ministering so compassionately to a man precious only to God and for sharing his remarkable story with the world.<br>-- Martin Sheen <br> Bernard of Clairvaux in the twelfth century once liberated a murderer being led to execution. 'I will kill him myself, ' Bernard promised; he took the man to Clairvaux and made him a monk. Bernard meant that through the process of monastic conversion the man's false self, which had expressed itself in violence, would die and his true self emerge and thrive in peace. W. Paul Jones tells a twentieth-century version of that story. Through Jones's sensitive, gripping prose the reader follows the conversion of Clayton A. Fountain from chaos to clarity. <br> Fr. Mark Scott<br>Gethsemani Abb Author InformationW. Paul Jones is a Roman Catholic priest, a Trappist brother at Assumption Abbey in the Ozarks, and founding spiritual director of the Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center, Pittsburg, Missouri. His other books include The Art of Spiritual Direction Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |