The Battle For God

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
Now in Paperback! "Karen Armstrong has given us a wide-ranging review of the wrenching 'Battle for God' between the forces of modernism and fundamentalism. Too many prefer to curse and denigrate the rise of fundamentalism. Karen Armstrong chooses to light a candle of understanding and comparative analysis."-Rabbi Irving Greenberg

Ballantine 2001 464 PP. Paper

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The Case For God

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
This book moves from the stone age to the present detailing 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, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time. Why has God become so unbelievable to so many? She makes a powerful, argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our polarized age, but cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers that lie within the competence of human reason.

Anchor Books 2009 330 PP. Paper

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The Great Transformation - Paper

The Beginning Of Our Religious Traditions

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
In this book Karen Armstrong reveals how the sages of this pivotal "Axial Age" can speak clearly and helpfully to the violence and desperation that we experience in our own times. Armstrong traces the development of the Axial Age chronologically, examining the contributions of such figures as Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, the mystics of the Upanishads, Mencius, and Euripides. With regard to dealing with fear, despair, hatred, rage, and violence, the Axial sages gave their people and give us, Armstrong says, two important pieces of advice: first there must be personal responsibility and self-criticism, and it must be followed by practical, effective action.

Anchor Books 2007 565 PP. Paper

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A History Of God

The 4,000-year Quest Of Judaism, Christianity And Islam

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
Karen Armstrong considers herself an "historian of ideas" and here she looks at how the concept of God has changed over time in the major world religions. She looks at the historical, intellectual, philosophical, and social developments that both shaped and were shaped by them.

Ballantine 1994 496 PP Paper

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In The Beginning

A New Interpretation Of Genesis

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
As the foundation stone of the Jewish and Christian scriptures, The Book of Genesis unfolds some of the most arresting stories of world literature--the Creation; Adam and Eve; Cain and Abel; the sacrifice of Isaac. Yet the meaning of Genesis remains enigmatic. In this fascinating volume, Karen Armstrong, author of the highly acclaimed bestseller A History of God, brilliantly illuminates the mysteries and profundities of this mystifying work.

Ballantine 1996 195 PP. Paper

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The Spiral Staircase

My Climb Out Of Darkness

BY KAREN ARMSTRONG
"If it were simply a narrative of a life resolving itself into extraordinary achievement, The Spiral Staircase would be enough. But it also portrays lyrically the tender relationship with her young autistic friend, Jacob; her adventures in the Holy Land; and her discovery at last, while writing A History of God, that theology could speak to her, as poetry does, in silence.. Armstrong's own understanding of God, with which she concludes, may not be for everyone. But those who believe the world needs `not belief, not certainty, but compassionate action,' will find here words to live by."-The United Church Observer

Anchor Books 2005 336 PP. Paper

$14.95 (out of stock but can be backordered)