The Case For God
Karen Armstrong Audio Book

Many people today want nothing to do with God. In the past people went to great lengths to experience a sacred reality, but now militant atheists preach a gospel of godlessness and find an eager audience. What has happened?

Karen Armstrong argues that atheism has rarely been a denial of the sacred itself but has nearly always rejected a particular conception of God. Tracing the history of faith from the Palaeolithic Age to the present, she shows that there was no warfare between science and religion. But science has changed the conversation. The meaning of words such as belief, faith, and mystery has been entirely altered, so that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about God in a way that our ancestors would have found astonishing. Why has the modern God become incredible? Has God a future in this age of aggressive scientific rationalism? Karen Armstrong suggests that if we draw creatively on the insights of the past, we can build a faith that speaks directly to the needs of our troubled and polarised world.