History of God
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307798589 (0307798585)
Publish date: August 10th 2011
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Pages no: 496
Edition language: English
Confession - I did not finish this. It started blissfully, a beautifully written and well annotated history of the Judaic/Christian/Islamic faiths full of fascinating insight.But, even then, progress was slow. And that slow progress shifted from worthwhile absorption to tedious page counting and los...
I know I'm an atheist and all, but I still enjoy Armstrong. Wrote this review several years ago:Rarely does one come across a book that is recognized as erudite, essential, and readable simultaneously. Karen Armstrong's The History of God has brilliantly analyzed the rise of fundamentalism as a rea...