Karen Armstrong

The Case for God (eBook, ePUB)

What religion really means

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with the zeal of missionaries and find an eager audience.

Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, Karen Armstrong shows that meaning of words such as 'belief', 'faith', and 'mystery' has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God - and, indeed, reason itself - in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing.

Does God have a future? Karen Armstrong examines how we can build a faith that speaks to the needs of our troubled and dangerously polarised world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House UK Ltd
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781409058335
• Artikelnr.: 39217308

Autorenporträt

Karen Armstrong is one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun in the 1960s, but then left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1982, she became a full time writer and broadcaster. She is a best-selling author of over 15 books. An accomplished writer and passionate campaigner for religious liberty, Armstrong has addressed members of the United States Congress and the Senate and has participated in the World Economic Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
 
Part I The Unknown God (30,000 BCE to 1500 CE)
One  Homo religiosus
Two  God
Three  Reason
Four  Faith
Five  Silence
Six  Faith and Reason
 
Part II The Modern God (1500 CE to the Present)
Seven  Science and Religion
Eight  Scientific Religion
Nine  Enlightenment
Ten  Atheism
Eleven Unknowing
Twelve  Death of God?
Epilogue
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

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