by Karen Armstrong
This one took me a while to read while I digested some of it, this was not an easy read, some of it felt like it was skirting the issue a little. It argues against absolutism and for religion that is built of acceptance and love of other and self. I had minor issues with some parts of it, the tho...
Poor Karen Armstrong has been ploughing a lonely furrow in recent years, trying to show that there is a valid Third Way between increasingly defensive religious groups and increasingly forthright ‘new atheists’. Neither side thinks much of her. For those of us a bit more detached from the arguments,...
I came really close to giving this book a 5 star review, but some parts of it bored me so I didn't give it a 5 star review.I think everyone should read this book. It's given me a different way to look at religion - a way that is very different from the way we view religion now. This book is part his...
This one took me a while to read while I digested some of it, this was not an easy read, some of it felt like it was skirting the issue a little. It argues against absolutism and for religion that is built of acceptance and love of other and self. I had minor issues with some parts of it, the thoug...
The title of another book out last year excited me--The Evolution of God--but when I heard the author speak I was disappointed. (There was a lot of talk about zero sum game.) Armstrong's book is what I had hoped for from the other. It covers the changing ways people have viewed God and religion, fr...
Complete garbage. For a way better review, click http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/07/karen-armstrong-case-for-god and listen to it.