The case of God
Written by Karen Armstrong
Reported by Karen Armstrong
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BOOK DESCRIPTION
Moving from the Paleolithic era to the present day, Karen Armstrong details humanity's great efforts to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah or Dao. Focusing particularly on Christianity, but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminishing impulse toward religion in our time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the effectiveness of faith. Why did God become incredible? Why do both atheists and theists now think and talk about God in ways that depart so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors?
Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and insight that marked all of his acclaimed books, Armstrong clearly explains how the changing world has necessarily altered the importance of religion, both on a societal and individual level. And she makes a powerful and compelling argument for the need to build on the ideas of the past in order to build a faith that meets the needs of our dangerously polarized times. Yet she warns us that religion was never meant to provide answers that fall within the purview of human reason; this, she says, is the role of logos. The task of religion is “to help us experience creatively, peacefully, and even joyfully realities for which there are no easy explanations.” She also emphasizes that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its ideas come not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual effort" and a "compassionate lifestyle that allows us to escape the prism of 'individuality'.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Karen Armstrong is the author of many other books on religious affairs, including A History of God, The Battle for God, Holy War, Islam, Buddha, and The Great Transformation, as well as two memoirs, Through the Narrow Gate and The Spiral Staircase. His work has been translated into forty-five languages. She addressed members of the US Congress three times; lectured to policymakers at the U.S. Department of State; participated in the World Economic Forum in New York, Jordan and Davos; addressed the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington and New York; is increasingly invited to speak in Muslim countries; and is now an ambassador for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations. In February 2008, she received the TED Prize and is currently working with TED on a major international project to launch and propagate a Charter for Compassion, created online by the general public and developed by leading thinkers from Judaism, Christianity , Islam, Hinduism and Islam. Buddhism, to be signed in the fall…
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AUDIOBOOK DETAILS
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French language
Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio
Published on: September 22, 2009
ISBN: 9780307702388
Duration: 16 hrs 50 mins
Genres: Philosophy/Religious, Religion/History, Social sciences/Sociology of religions
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