Whether he is called God, Yahweh or Allah, the idea of a single
divine being has existed for over 4000 years. In this wide-ranging,
fascinating, readable work Karen Armstrong traces the history and
changing nature of the idea of one god. She looks mainly at
Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also at pagan, Hindu and
Buddhist conceptions of 'ultimate reality', and at atheism, the
rejection of the idea of god. This is not 'a history of the
ineffable reality of God itself... but a history of the way men and
women have perceived him from Abraham to the present day'. (Kirkus
UK)
The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice. In this fascinating, extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen Armstrong examines Western socitety's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God and the man conflicting convictions it engenders. A controversial, extraordinary sroty of worship and war, A HISTORY OF GOD confronts the most fundamental fact - or fiction - of our lives.
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