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