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"Evaluates the role of religion, stating that today's expressions of faith differ from those of previous generations while arguing that an increased awareness of the past may help to build a faith that speaks to a polarized society."@en
"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. And she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. 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 endeavoŕ and a ́compassionate lifestyle that enables us to break out of the prism of selfhood."@en
"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. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age."@en
"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. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age."
"Argues that atheism has rarely been a denial of the sacred itself but has nearly always rejected a particular conception of God. The authore suggests that if we draw on the insights of the past, we can build a faith that speaks to our needs."@en
"Focusing especially on Christianity but including other religions, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion during a time when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith."

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"Electronic books"@en
"History"
"History"@es
"History"@en
"Russian language edition"
"Large type books"

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"Biografii︠a︡ Boga : vse, chto chelovechestvo uspelo uznatʹ / Karen Armstrong ; per. s angl"
"The case for god"@en
"Spór o Boga : czym naprawdę jest religia?"@pl
"Sagen gud - hvad religion egentlig betyder"@da
"Biografii︠a︡ Boga : vse, chto chelovechestvo uspelo uznatʹ"
"The case for God"
"The case for God"@en
"En defensa de Dios : el sentido de la religión"
"En defensa de Dios : el sentido de la religión"@es
"De kwestie God : de toekomst van religie"
"The Case for God"@en
"Биография Бога : все, что человечество успело узнать"

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