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The Case for God by Karen Armstrong; 3M Company is a religious work available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Case for God about?

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 that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, 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 unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all 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. Yet she cautions us that religion was ne

Who reads The Case for God?

It is typically read by readers engaging with religious study and devotional practice.

Common subject areas: religion, theology.

Author
Karen Armstrong; 3M Company
Publisher
Random House, Incorporated
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9780307269188
Category
religious
Subjects
Fiction, Religion, Philosophy
Rating
3.82 / 5 (27 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-13

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