The Case for God: What religion really means

The Case for God: What religion really means
ISBN-10
1409058336
ISBN-13
9781409058335
Series
The Case for God
Category
Religion
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2011-05-31
Publisher
Random House
Author
Karen Armstrong

Description

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. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries and find an eager audience. 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 polarised world.

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