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- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- MPN
- 0307389804
- Brand
- Anchor Books
- Style
- ABIS_BOOK
- Edition
- Reprint
- Color
- Silver
- ISBN
- 9780307389800
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307389804
ISBN-13
9780307389800
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80509416
Product Key Features
Book Title
Case for God
Number of Pages
432 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2010
Topic
Christian Life / General, Atheism, Christian Theology / Apologetics, Religious, General, History, Sociology of Religion
Genre
Religion, Philosophy, Social Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1 in
Item Weight
12.4 Oz
Item Length
7.9 in
Item Width
5.2 in
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Reviews
Praise for Karen Armstrong'sThe Case for God "The time is ripe for a book likeThe Case for God,which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought." -Ross Douthat,The New York Times Book Review "Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape." -Lisa Miller,Newsweek "A thoughtful explanation, well-sourced and impressively rooted in the writings of theologians, philosophers, scholars and religious figures through the ages. . . . If Armstrong is out to bring respect to both reason and faith in the search of that transcendent meaning, she has done well." -Repps Hudson,St. Louis Post-Dispatch "The Case for Godis Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of hwo rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back." -Michael Brunton,Ode "In over a dozen books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief." -The Economist "The Case for Godshould be read slowly, and savored." -Karen R. Long, ClevelandPlain Dealer "Armstrong's thesis is provocative, and her book illuminates a side of Christianity that has recently been overshadowed." -Margaret Quamme,Columbus Dispatch "Armstrong is ambitious.The Case for Godis an entire semester at college packed into a single book-a voluminous, dizzying intellectual history. . . . ReadingThe Case for God,I felt smarter. . . . A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered what could be." -Susan Jane Gilman, NPR's "All Things Considered" "Karen Armstrong's book is simply superb. Wide-ranging, detailed, well researched meticulously argued and beautifully written, it is a definitive analysis of the role of religious belief and transcendence in our history and our life." -Dr Robert Buckman, author ofCan We Be Good without God? "Karen Armstrong, in writingThe Case for God,provides the reader with one of the very best theological works of our time. It brings a new understanding to the complex relationship between human existence and the transcendent nature of God. This is a book that is so well researched and so deep with insight and soaring scholarship that only Karen Armstrong could have written it. The Case for God should be required reading for anyone who claims to be a believer, an agnostic or an atheist." -The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, D.D., Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, D.C. "No one is better qualified or more needed than Karen Armstrong to enter the hot public debate between believers and non-believers over the existence of God. Her latest book, eagerly awaited and received, rings out with the qualities she brings to all of her work-The Case for Godis lucid, learned, provocative, and illuminating. Indeed, Armstrong once again does what she always does best by shining a clear light on the deepest mysteries of the religious imagination." -Jonathan Kirsch, author ofThe Harlot by the Side of the Road "Challenging, intelligent, and illuminating-especially for anyone reflecting on current discussions of atheism, often characterized as conflict between religion and science." -Elaine Pagels, co-author ofReading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shap, "The time is ripe for a book like The Case for God, which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought." --Ross Douthat, The New York Times Book Review "Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape." --Lisa Miller, Newsweek " The Case for God is Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of hwo rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back." --Michael Brunton, Ode "In over a dozen books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief." -- The Economist "Armstrong is ambitious. The Case for God is an entire semester at college packed into a single book--a voluminous, dizzying intellectual history. . . . Reading The Case for God, I felt smarter. . . . A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered what could be." --Susan Jane Gilman, NPR's "All Things Considered" "Challenging, intelligent, and illuminating--especially for anyone reflecting on current discussions of atheism, often characterized as conflict between religion and science." --Elaine Pagels, co-author of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity , "The time is ripe for a book like The Case for God, which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought." --Ross Douthat, The New York Times Book Review "Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape." --Lisa Miller, Newsweek " The Case for God is Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of hwo rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back." --Michael Brunton, Ode "In over a dozen books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief." -- The Economist "Armstrong is ambitious. The Case for God is an entire semester at college packed into a single book--a voluminous, dizzying intellectual history. . . . Reading The Case for God, I felt smarter. . . . A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered what could be." --Susan Jane Gilman, NPR's "All Things Considered" "Challenging, intelligent, and illuminating--especially for anyone reflecting on current discussions of atheism, often characterized as conflict between religion and science." --Elaine Pagels, co-author of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity, "The time is ripe for a book like The Case for God, which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought." -Ross Douthat, The New York Times Book Review "Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape." -Lisa Miller, Newsweek "A thoughtful explanation, well-sourced and impressively rooted in the writings of theologians, philosophers, scholars and religious figures through the ages. . . . If Armstrong is out to bring respect to both reason and faith in the search of that transcendent meaning, she has done well." -Repps Hudson, St. Louis Post-Dispatch " The Case for God is Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of hwo rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back." -Michael Brunton, Ode "In over a dozen books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief." - The Economist " The Case for God should be read slowly, and savored." -Karen R. Long, Cleveland Plain Dealer "Armstrong's thesis is provocative, and her book illuminates a side of Christianity that has recently been overshadowed." -Margaret Quamme, Columbus Dispatch "Armstrong is ambitious. The Case for God is an entire semester at college packed into a single book-a voluminous, dizzying intellectual history. . . . Reading The Case for God, I felt smarter. . . . A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered what could be." -Susan Jane Gilman, NPR's "All Things Considered" "Karen Armstrong's book is simply superb. Wide-ranging, detailed, well researched meticulously argued and beautifully written, it is a definitive analysis of the role of religious belief and transcendence in our history and our life." -Dr. Robert Buckman, author of Can We Be Good without God? "Karen Armstrong, in writing The Case for God, provides the reader with one of the very best theological works of our time. It brings a new understanding to the complex relationship between human existence and the transcendent nature of God. This is a book that is so well researched and so deep with insight and soaring scholarship that only Karen Armstrong could have written it. The Case for God should be required reading for anyone who claims to be a believer, an agnostic or an atheist." -The Right Reverend John Bryson Chane, D.D., Episcopal Bishop of the Diocese of Washington, D.C. "No one is better qualified or more needed than Karen Armstrong to enter the hot public debate between believers and non-believers over the existence of God. Her latest book, eagerly awaited and received, rings out with the qualities she brings to all of her work- The Case for God is lucid, learned, provocative, and illuminating. Indeed, Armstrong once again does what she always does best by shining a clear light on the deepest mysteries of the religious imagination." -Jonathan Kirsch, author of The Harlot by the Side of the Road "Challenging, intelligent, and illuminating-especially for anyone reflecting on current discussions of atheism, often characterized as conflict between religion and science." -Elaine Pagels, co-author of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity "With characteristic command of subject and crispness, the prolific and redoubtable independent British scho, "The time is ripe for a book like The Case for God, which wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of Western religious thought." -- The New York Times Book Review "Armstrong's argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape." -- Newsweek " The Case for God is Armstrong's most concise and practical-minded book yet: a historical survey of hwo rather than what we believe, where we lost the "knack" of religion and what we need to do to get it back." -- Ode "In over a dozen books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief." -- The Economist "Armstrong is ambitious. The Case for God is an entire semester at college packed into a single book--a voluminous, dizzying intellectual history. . . . Reading The Case for God, I felt smarter. . . . A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered what could be." --NPR's "All Things Considered" "Challenging, intelligent, and illuminating--especially for anyone reflecting on current discussions of atheism, often characterized as conflict between religion and science." --Elaine Pagels, co-author of Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
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Table Of Content
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
Synopsis
A nuanced exploration of the part that religion plays in human life, drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. 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 that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of logos. The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood.", NATIONAL BESTSELLER * A nuanced exploration of the role of religion in our lives, drawing on insights of the past to build a faith for our dangerously polarized age --from the New York Times bestselling author of The History of God 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 that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed books, Armstrong makes clear how the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level. Yet she cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is the role of logos. The task of religion is "to help us live creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which there are no easy explanations." She emphasizes, too, that religion will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a "compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood."
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