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Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of many of today's controversies. In this timely and important book, one of the most trusted and admired writers on the world of faith examines the meaning of Scripture. The sacred texts have been coopted by fundamentalists, who insist that they must be taken literally, and others who interpret Scripture to bolster their own prejudices. They are seen to prescribe ethical norms and codes of behavior that are divinely ordained--they are believed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong shows in this chronicle of the development and significance of major religions, this narrow, peculiar reading of scripture is a relatively recent, modern phenomenon. For most of their history, the world's religious traditions have regarded these texts as tools for the individual to connect with the divine, to experience a different level of consciousness and to help

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Author

Armstrong, Karen

Publisher

Random House; Knopf Publishing Group

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525431923

Category

religious

Subjects

Religion, Sacred Texts

Rating

4.4 / 5 (379 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14