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Apocalyptic for the Millennium.
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I WAS TAUGHT BY HERMANN COHEN AND MARTIN BUBER, who did not otherwise always agree, that I should beware of Apocalypticism at all costs. Biblical Prophecy, they thought, issued in two streams: Jewish ethics and law on the one hand, and proto-gnostic heresies on the other. I should remember that while Judaism occasionally produced some strange dualistic (Persian?) texts, the canon limited itself to a knowledge of God's will for us in the form of mitzoot, especially, in ethical behav...
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A History of God from Abraham to the Present: The 4000-Year Quest for God.
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; 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
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"WHERE IS YOUR GOD?" THEOPHANY AND THE ANGEL OF HISTORY
Renascence
; ... of a Violent History into Poetry's Oblivion." San Jose Mercury News 24 April 1994: E1. Mitchell, Nora, and Emily Skoler. "History ... Carolyn Forch." 20 Feb. 2000. <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/forche/wrightinterview.htm> [Author Affiliation ...
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Author Discusses Current Bestseller, `A History of God'
Weekend Edition - Sunday (NPR)
; ... next on Weekend Edition, four thousand years of religious discovery- Karen Armstrong's A History of God. Stay with us. [music] [news headlines] [music] HANSEN: Karen Armstrong is the author of an ambitious new work of comparative theology. A History of God ...
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"Where is your God?" Theophany and The Angel of History.(Critical essay)
Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature
; ... of a Violent History into Poetry's Oblivion. San Jose Mercury News 24 April 1994: El. Mitchell, Nora, and Emily Skoler. History ... with Carolyn Forche. 20 Feb. 2000. <http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/forche/wrightinterview.htm> Notes (1) Rochelle Owens ...
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A History of God, 1994
New Straits Times
; Reviewed by Clive Kessler New Straits Times 06-06-2001 A History of God, 1994 Byline: Reviewed by Clive Kessler Edition: The City Advertiser; 2* Section: Books Type: Book review CAN God, the divine force behind creation and therefore beyond history, have a history? The idea seems blasphemous, but
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History must include God; John Demakowski, Franklin
Concord Monitor
; History must include God In order that we can learn accurately the laws of nature, in employing the scientific method one is not allowed to say, "Well, this works this way because of God." Which is of course true, but that is not what the scientist is interested in discovering. He is interested in
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History, Justice, and the Agency of God: A Hermeneutical and Exegetical Investigation on Isaiah and the Psalms
The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; CHRISTOPH O. SCHROEDER, History, Justice, and the Agency of God: A Hermeneutical and Exegetical Investigation on Isaiah and the Psalms (Biblical Interpretation Series 52; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 2001). Pp. xiv + 236. Nlg 141,04, $79. This book is a revision of Christoph Schroeder's
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In the book 'A History of God' author and former Catholic nun contends that men and women created God to meet their needs, conform to their times. (Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
; In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Or did He? If it had been left to English writer Karen Armstrong, the Book of Genesis might have read something like this: ``From the very beginning, it was men and women who created God, to meet their needs, to conform to their times, and
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A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.(Brief Article)
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; A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong. Knopf, 460 pp., $27.50. Armstrong believed from childhood that God existed but he was a shadowy abstract figure rather than an image. She liked to read about the lives of saints and was moved by the beauty
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Perhaps it's time we gave history back to God
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