A History of God
Author: Armstrong, Karen
ISBN: 9780099273677
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1999
Pages: 560
Dimensions: 199mm x 129mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The bestselling and seminal work from one of our foremost commentators on religion.
The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice.
In this fascinating, extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders. A controversial, extraordinary story of worship and war, A History of God confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives.
ISBN: 9780099273677
Publisher: VINTAGE ARROW - MASS MARKET
Year First Published: 1999
Pages: 560
Dimensions: 199mm x 129mm x 29mm
Format: Paperback / softback
Description
The bestselling and seminal work from one of our foremost commentators on religion.
The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice.
In this fascinating, extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen Armstrong examines Western society's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the many conflicting convictions it engenders. A controversial, extraordinary story of worship and war, A History of God confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives.
