Karen Armstrong's "The Case for God": A Comprehensive Exploration of Faith and Beliefs

Kindle Customer: Karen Armstrong does it again! This is a great, interesting book. Ms Armstrong explains, talks about the 4 Big Godheads of Religion. God, Brahman, Nirvana & Tao. She also goes into the science associated with the Religion of the time.... Albert Einstein, Etc.... Really interesting!!!

United States on Nov 22, 2023

Lucca Canizela De Camargo: Very informative book!

Brazil on May 22, 2022

Mohammad Shah: Beautiful but little hard to understand, it requires a lot of knowledge and understanding to read it..

India on Jul 23, 2018

Amazon Customer: Ce livre m'a aidée à mieux comprendre le besoin pour certaines personnes de croire en Dieu.

Canada on Jan 21, 2018

Patricia Oliver: Tal y como esperaba. Es perfecto para lo que necesitaba. La descripción se ajusta al producto. Muy satisfecha. Muy recomendable.

Spain on Oct 20, 2016

Alessandro C: Un all-you-can-eat antropo-spiritual-filosofico che mischia concetti senza approfondirli mai, confondendoli in un pastone informe. Per intenderci, in poche pagine l'autrice liquida tutta la filosofia greca, dai presocratici a Aristotele, riassumendo (bontà sua) quello che questi grandi pensatori intendevano quando parlavano di Dio (o dio, a seconda dei casi). Come dire, "brevi cenni sull'universo". In molti punti traspare l'obiettivo di dimostrare che la Bibbia non può essere interpretata in senso letterale; magari la polemica ha senso nei confronti dei fondamentalisti a stelle a strisce, ma non fa che rendere ulteriormente insulso il libro. Cito una castroneria tra tante giusto per esemplificare. L'autrice sostiene che in realtà Dio non esiste, perché evade le categorie della realtà, tra cui l'esistenza. Ricordo la lezione in cui il mio prof di filosofia di liceo distinse tra essenza e esistenza; la Armstrong forse ha bigiato quando dovevano spiegarlo a lei. Per me è difficilissimo non finire i libri che inizio a leggere, ma in questo caso ho gettato la spugna a circa un quinto.

Italy on Nov 06, 2015

Gregory J. Casteel: There's an awful lot of talk about God these days; and, frankly, most of it is facile. The internet in particular seems to be constantly abuzz with heated "debate" (if you can even call it that, since it tends more toward an exchange of insults than an exchange of ideas) between "ignorant" believers and "arrogant" nonbelievers who actually think that they are making devastatingly clever, irrefutable arguments when, in fact, most of what they say is so naïve, ill-informed, and poorly reasoned that even a first-year theology or philosophy student couldn't listen to it without facepalming. Sure, if you look hard enough you can find more sophisticated discussions of "the God question", even on the internet; but these can be somewhat difficult for the layperson with little or no background in the philosophy of religion to follow; and thus they tend to attract less attention than do the more puerile debates on popular online discussion forums, and similarly puerile popular books written by well-known partisans in the culture wars. So, in the face of all the nonsense that gets said on a daily basis nowadays by both sides in the God debate, it's refreshing to read this delightful book by...

United States on Mar 08, 2013

P. J. Owen: In The Case for God, Karen Armstrong doesn't so much argue for God as she argues for the Socratic over the scientific method. For practice over doctrine.

For much of the 330 pages, Armstrong gives us a theological history lesson, a tiresome struggle as the strand of thoughts on God and creation evolve over time in back and forth nudges. She breaks the book into two main sections: pre-modern and modern. In a nutshell, pre-modern people saw God as a transcendent and indefinable thing, only attainable through ritual and intellectual rigor. This is what gave meaning to their lives. If you think of Buddhism, Confucianism, and Daoism, Armstrong argues that this is what virtually all religion was like in pre-modern times. Key to her argument though is that pre-modern people did not take scripture literally. In fact, they seemed to revel in exegesis, or `the art of interpreting and explaining the text of scripture'. They discussed scripture and understood it as symbolism, or as myths, and by doing that, attained greater wisdom and comfort in their lives. This point is what both atheists and most religions miss today, Armstrong argues.

Modern people meanwhile have been...

United States on Oct 20, 2009