Karen Armstrong, a popular historian of religion whose bestselling A History of God brought her to national prominence in 1993, is back in the news. Her new book, The Case for God, revisits some ...
Cleveland.com: Karen Armstrong's 'The Case for God' takes the intellect along for a spiritual journey
Karen Armstrong's 'The Case for God' takes the intellect along for a spiritual journey
THE WEEK: Book of the week: The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
The Western world’s conception of God has never recovered from Sir Isaac Newton’s own brand of Christianity, says Karen Armstrong. Before the 17th century’s “father of physics” claimed to have proved ...
Having already recounted "a history of God," the redoubtable Armstrong here narrates the evolution of the religious traditions of the world from their births to their maturity. In her typical ...
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. Subtitled “The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam,” A History of God is billed as a comparative ...
St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Are you sure? Karen Armstrong and the problem of religious certainty
NEW YORK -- After she left the convent, Karen Armstrong called herself an atheist. "I used to hate religion," she says. "I loathed it in my angry days." Seventeen books later, she is recognized as one ...
Cracking open "The Case for God" is like receiving an invitation to the grown-ups' table. You'll need your wits, your appetite and your best manners -- including a new receptiveness to those who sit ...
In a study that PW found ambitious and controversial, London-based feminist Armstrong shows how the medieval witch craze, sex-denying Victorian England and even today's Christianity have perpetuated ...