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Carlos Eire

A Yale religion scholar describes how he learned that suffering can be redemptive.

04/01/2011 | Rating NR

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Carlos Eire

Clip: 4/1/2011 | 8m

A Yale religion scholar describes how he learned that suffering can be redemptive.

Reformation historian, award-winning memoirist, and Cuban emigre Carlos Eire says reading the medieval devotional book "The Imitation of Christ" by Thomas a Kempis was "a conversion experience."

04/01/2011 | Rating NR

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