The case for God / Karen Armstrong.

By:

Armstrong, Karen, 1944-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Knopf, 2009.Description: xviii, 406 p. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780307269188

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

212.4

LOC classification:

BL 473 A736c 2009

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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Item type	Current library	Home library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Vol info	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Biblioteca Juan Bosch	Humanidades	Humanidades (4to. Piso)	BL 473 A736c 2009 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	1	Available		00000076882

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-390) and index.

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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