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“Armstrong’s argument
is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the
religious landscape.”
— Newsweek
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“The time is ripe for
a book like The Case for God, which
wraps a rebuke to the more militant sort of atheism in an engaging survey of
Western religious thought.”
— New York Times Book Review
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“A thoughtful
explanation, well-sourced and impressively rooted in the writings of
theologians, philosophers, scholars, and religious figures through the ages…If
Armstrong is out to bring respect to both reason and faith in the search of
that transcendent meaning, she has done well.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Armstrong is
ambitious. The Case for God is an
entire semester at college packed into a single book—a voluminous, dizzying
intellectual history…Reading The Case for
God, I felt smarter…A stimulating, hopeful work. After I finished it, I
felt inspired, I stopped, and I looked up at the stars again. And I wondered
what could be.”
— NPR, All Things Considered
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“In over a dozen
books [Armstrong] has delivered something people badly want: a way to
acknowledge that faith can be taken seriously as a response to deep human
yearnings without needing to subscribe to the formality of organized belief.”
— Economist
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“Armstrong’s thesis
is provocative, and her book illuminates a side of Christianity that has
recently been overshadowed.”
— Columbus Dispatch
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“One of our best
living writers on religion…Prodigiously sourced, passionately written.”
— Financial Times
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“Karen Armstrong is
one of [a] handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion…As
in so much of the rest of her hugely impressive body of work, Karen Armstrong
invites us on a journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains
wise from so much that to so many…no longer seems true.”
— Observer (London)
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“With characteristic
command of subject and crispness, the prolific and redoubtable independent
British scholar and former nun takes yet another run at the world’s religious
history…She’s conceptual, humanistic, and exceedingly well-read…[An] articulate
and accessible sweep through intellectual history. The ‘unknowing’ of the
mystics has its virtues and its place, but being well-read and knowledgeable
makes one powerful and persuasive book.”
— Publishers Weekly (starred review)
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“Celebrated religion
scholar Armstrong creates more than a history of religion; she effectively
demonstrates how the West (broadly speaking) has grappled with the existence of
deity and captured the concept in words, art, and ideas…A brilliant examination…[An]
accessible, intriguing study of how we see God.”
— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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“The new book by
premier contemporary historian of religion is a history of God…Presenting
difficult ideas with utter lucidity, this registers at once as a classic of
religious and world history.”
— Booklist (starred review)
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“Armstrong offers a
tour de force…Highly recommended for readers willing to grapple with difficult
but clearly articulated concepts and challenges to the ‘received’ ways of
perceiving religion. A classic.”
— Library Journal