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St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and edges. St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle, he also ex ...Show more
The Battle For God: Fundamentalism in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Karen Armstrong
Category: Non-Fiction
Britain's greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.
The Case for God by Karen Armstrong
Category: History
From the bestselling author of A History of God and The Great Transformation comes a balanced, nuanced understanding of the role religion plays in human life and the trajectory of faith in modern times.Why has God become incredible? Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God ...Show more
The Case for God: What Religion Really Means by Karen Armstrong
Category: Mind, Body & Spirit
The enormous popularity of books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others shows that despite the religious revival that is under way in many parts of the world, there is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. The militant atheism we are witnessing at present is ...Show more
The Case for God - What Religion Really Means by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
An essential book for our times: A thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins. There is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. For the first time in history, a significantly large number of people want nothing to do with God. Mlitant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness with ...Show more
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
Second-hand, paperback in as new condition. 'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson 'One of our best living writers on religion' Financial Times 'Karen Armstrong is one of the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion' Alain De Botton In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at w ...Show more
The Lost Art of Scripture - Rescuing the Sacred Texts by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion | Series: Religion
Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture - the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions - may not be im ...Show more
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Category: Religion
Drawing on a wide range of material - ranging from the spiritual character of the world religions to the findings of contemporary neuroscience - Karen Armstrong argues that compassion is hardwired into our brains, yet is constantly pushed back by our more primitive instincts for selfishness and survival ...Show more