The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts

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Karen Armstrong's The Lost Art of Scripture analyzes scripture from the major religions of the world. By so doing she discussed the concept of God. Is God immanent, omniscient, and omnipotent? Certainly, God is infinite and beyond description. The human concept of God is quite limited. Our defini...

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The Idea of the Sacred In religion distinct traditions have diverse ideas about the sacred. The sacred assumes various forms. Karen Armstrong deals with this diversity and reflects about the distinct ways to interpret sacred texts and rituals. She examines Chinese, Indian, Muslim and Christian (E...

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Good, but not comparable to A History of God or her biography of Muhammad. Covers Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism and Buddhism (and a bit of Jainism), and Confucianism (with a little bit, far too little bit, of Daoism). Interestingly, unlike another reviewer, I found the last chapter the w...

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Karen Armstrong's The Lost Art of Scripture analyzes scripture from the major religions of the world. By so doing she discussed the concept of God. Is God immanent, omniscient, and omnipotent? Certainly, God is infinite and beyond description. The human concept of God is quite limited. Our defini...

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The Idea of the Sacred In religion distinct traditions have diverse ideas about the sacred. The sacred assumes various forms. Karen Armstrong deals with this diversity and reflects about the distinct ways to interpret sacred texts and rituals. She examines Chinese, Indian, Muslim and Christian (E...