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The case for God / Karen Armstrong.
LIBRA BL473 .A76 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Armstrong, Karen, 1944-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- God--History of doctrines.
- God.
- Religious life--History.
- Religious life.
- God (Christianity)--History of doctrines.
- God (Christianity).
- Christian life--History.
- Christian life.
- History.
- Apologetics.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 406 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Knopf, 2009.
- Summary:
- Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age.
- Contents:
- PT. 1 THE UNKNOWN GOD (30,000 BCE to 1500 CE): Homo religiosus
- God
- Reason
- Faith
- Silence
- Faith and reason
- PT. 2 THE MODERN GOD (1500 CD to the present): Science and religion
- Scientific religion
- Enlightenment
- Atheism
- Unknowing
- Death of God?
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [379]-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780307269188
- 0307269183
- OCLC:
- 316029803
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