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The Case for God (Hardcover)

By: Karen Armstrong (Author)

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"[A] passionate footnoted argument for the human need for a God."

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Evaluates the role of religion in history and the modern world, stating that today's expressions of faith are considerably removed from those of previous generations while arguing that an increased awareness of past insights may help to build a faith that speaks to an increasingly polarized society.

Evaluates the role of religion in history and the modern world, stating that today's expressions of faith are considerably removed from those of previous generations while arguing that an increased awareness of past insights may help to build a faith that speaks to an increasingly polarized society.

A nuanced exploration of the part religion plays in human life, past and present, from one of the foremost commentators on religion at work today.
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 that it has called God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spirituality, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become incredible? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that deviates so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all of her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. And 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.

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A former nun and renowned religious scholar, Karen Armstrong (A HISTORY OF GOD) writes with passion and quiet intelligence about the significant role that religious practice has played throughout history, and how that role has been tainted and misunderstood both by religious fundamentalists and by the equally fervid rhetoric of the neo-atheists like Sam Harris and Richard Dawkins. Armstrong's concept of religion draws on the apophatic tradition in which God's nature cannot ever be expressed in language, a tradition in which religion must be practiced and experienced rather than argued or intellectualized. She uses the Greek terms of "logos" and "mythos" to distinguish between our rational dealing with the world and our deeper mysterious craving for myth to make sense of our human suffering. Using examples from a wide range of religions, Armstrong strives to show her readers the ways that religion can still serve the modern world as a source of solace, awe, and compassion.

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