The Case for God Audiobook

Quotes

• “Armstrong’s argument is prescient, for it reflects the most important shifts occurring in the religious landscape.”

  — Newsweek

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “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

• “Armstrong’s thesis is provocative, and her book illuminates a side of Christianity that has recently been overshadowed.”

  — Columbus Dispatch

• “One of our best living writers on religion…Prodigiously sourced, passionately written.”

  — Financial Times

• “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)

• “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)

• “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)

• “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)

• “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