Traces the evolution of ideas about God across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from ancient origins through philosophical and cultural shifts to modern challenges.
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Traces the evolution of ideas about God across Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, from ancient origins through philosophical and cultural shifts to modern challenges.
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As soon as they became recognizably human, men and women - in their hunger to understand their own presence on earth and the mysteries within and around them - began to worship gods. Karen Armstrong's masterly and illuminating book explores the ways in which the idea and experience of God evolved among the monotheists - Jews, Christians and Muslims.
Weaving a multicolored fabric of historical, philosophical, intellectual and social developments and insights, Armstrong shows how, at various time...
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References to historical religious conflicts and persecutions
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Central exploration of Jewish, Christian, and Muslim concepts of God across centuries
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Examines social, cultural, and intellectual developments tied to religious ideas
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