Pre-Owned The Battle for God CD (Audiobook) by Karen Armstrong

from RajivC

On the whole, I would say that this is a very good book. She does a very good job of tracing the course of history when seen from a religious aspect, through the ages. I especially liked the way that she emphasized the play between the mythos and the logos. I must confess that, when I read the bo...

from millsge

Armstrong understands the battle, its importance, and how the conflict should resolve itself. However, she and many others in academia must be much more honest with themselves and the world and admit that there s absolutely no evidence for an "historic" Jesus. They must make it clear that the bat...

from ShiraC

This is really at least 3 books interpolated. It's a bit dense and prosy, but my real complaint is that she just divides the entire historical period into somewhat arbitrary segments and then lays out the developments in one religious group after another. The intention I think is to show the para...

from pbjwelch

Karen Armstrong is rightly recognized as one of the leading scholars of western religions. In this monumental best seller she traces the people and causes of the rise of fundamentalism in Judaism, Islam and Christianity from the years 1492 (when the last European bastion of Islam, Granada, fell t...

from phbrasile

It's a book rich of detailed information. It has to be read twice or taken notes.