01685cam a2200301 4500 545745032 TxAuBib 090403s2009||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2009014044 9780307269188 hardcover 0307269183 hardcover 9780307397430 bound 0307397432 bound (OCoLC)3937 DLC DLC BTCTA TxAuBib Armstrong, Karen, 1944- The case for God / Karen Armstrong. New York : Knopf, 2009. xviii, 406 p. ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-390) and index. PT. 1 THE UNKNOWN GOD (30,000 BCE to 1500 CE): Homo religiosus -- God -- Reason -- Faith -- Silence -- Faith and reason -- PT. 2 THE MODERN GOD (1500 CD to the present): Science and religion -- Scientific religion -- Enlightenment -- Atheism -- Unknowing -- Death of God? Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality. While noting that the changing face of the world has necessarily changed the importance of religion at both the societal and the individual level, she makes a powerful, convincing argument for drawing on the insights of the past in order to build a faith that speaks to the needs of our dangerously polarized age. God History of doctrines. Religious life History. God (Christianity) History of doctrines. Christian life History. Apologetics.