The Case for God

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, 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

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

Financial Times

Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure of us, not the book

Sunday Times

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

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

Financial Times

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

New Statesmen