A History of God
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A History of God
| Full title | A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam |
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| Author | Karen Armstrong |
| Published | 1993 |
| Pages | 496 |
| Recommended | 2 times |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Karen Armstrong, a former nun turned historian of religion, traces four thousand years of the idea of a single God through Judaism, Christianity and Islam, arguing that successive eras meant different things by the word and quietly replaced conceptions that stopped being useful. It treats religion as intellectual history rather than apologetics. |
A History of God
Where I heard about it
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Spotted at Barnes & Noble at South Towne, Sandy — August 2024 (Books photo album)
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Li Lu — on Li Lu’s Recommended Book List, the 137-entry Himalaya Capital bibliography, in its first section: Science, Philosophy, Evolution, History of Human Civilization, Human History — the section on how human beings came to think the way they do, where it sits next to Popper and Morris.
Connections
- Religion — treated here as a 4,000-year intellectual history rather than a set of claims to accept or reject.
- Christianity — one of the three traditions traced.
- Philosophy — the strand Armstrong keeps setting against mysticism as rival routes to the same word.
- History — the method: ideas dated, placed, and shown changing.
- Li Lu · Himalaya Capital — the curator and the bibliography.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.