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The case for God / Karen Armstrong

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Canada, Vintage Canada, ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: xviii, 406 pages ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 9780307397447
  • 9780307269188
  • 0307269183
  • 9780307397430
  • 0307397432
  • 0307389804
  • 9780307389800
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Case for God.DDC classification:
  • 211 22
LOC classification:
  • BL473 .A76 2009
NLM classification:
  • 211 A736c
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 (500 CE to the present) -- Science and religion -- Scientific religion -- Enlightenment -- Atheism -- Unknowing -- Death of God?-- Epilogue
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
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Archives Archives SAIACS Archives Room Yandell Collection ARCH YNDC 211 A735C (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not for loan 062636

Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-390) and index

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 (500 CE to the present) -- Science and religion -- Scientific religion -- Enlightenment -- Atheism -- Unknowing -- Death of God?-- Epilogue

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

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