A History of God from Abraham to the Present: The 4000-Year Quest for God.

From: Contemporary Review | Date: July 1, 1993| Author: Traylen, Maryanne | Copyright information

In this ambitious history Karen Armstrong's own position is ambivalent. Having claimed her own religious experience to have been formed by the way in which she worked on her own feelings and imagination, paragraphs later complains that no-one told her God was the product of the creative imagination. Who is she blaming? No matter, as she traces Jewish, Christian and Muslim perceptions of God through the formation of religious groupings and ideologies, bringing our attention to devel...

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