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Published: 1 December 2010
ISBN: 9781409058335
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 384

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The Case for God

What religion really means

Karen Armstrong

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An essential book for our times: a thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins

There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Mlitant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries and find an eager audience. What has happened?

Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God - and, indeed, reason itself - in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing.

Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled and dangerously polarized world.

Pub date: 1 December 2010
ISBN: 9781409058335
Imprint: Vintage Digital
Format: EBook
Pages: 384

Categories:

Religion & Philosophy

Share…

About the Author

Karen Armstrong

Karen Armstrong is one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun, but left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1982, she became a full time writer and broadcaster. She is a best-selling author of over 16 books. An accomplished writer and passionate campaigner for religious liberty, Armstrong has addressed members of the United States Congress and the Senate and has participated in the World Economic Forum.

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Praise for The Case for God

“One of our best living writers on religion....prodigiously sourced, passionately written”

Financial Times

“A journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems true.... Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion”

Alain de Botton, The Observer

“A tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology, philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat...Armstrong rejoices in the unknowableness of life and searches, logically enough for meaning therein”

Sunday Herald

“Forget Richard Dawkins - just read it with an open mind”

Jeanette Winterson

“It isn't an easy read - why should it be? - but she is wonderfully clear and insightful - and not out to convert anyone”

Daily Mail

“Impressive...great eloquence”

Scotsman

“This is a stunned appreciation of an 'otherness' beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion”

New Statesmen

“This is smart work”

Telegraph

“Armstrong makes a wise and passionate case for a God of myth rather than reason, of wisdom rather than knowledge”

Steven Cave, Financial Times, Politics & religion books of the year

“Armstrong's God is far from the pop icon of the Evangelicals and closer to the "unseen power" of Shelley.”

Independent

“Learned and passionately argued”

Telegraph

“Armstrong is excellent as a historian and explicator of religions.”

Colin Waters, Sunday Herald

“Cogent and lucid historically based reply to Dawkins and Hitchens'. 'As she reminds us with this excellent study, religion was the first philosophical system.”

Lesley McDowell, Herald