The Case for God Audiobook by Karen Armstrong

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your choice for free. Title: The Case for God Author: Karen
Armstrong Narrator: Karen Armstrong Format: Unabridged Length: 16
hrs and 45 mins Language: English Release date: 09-22-09 Publisher:
Random House Audio Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 243 votes Genres:
Religion & Spirituality, Religious Thought Publisher's Summary:
Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam,
Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines
the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a
significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or
question the efficacy of faith. Why has God become unbelievable?
Why is it that atheists and theists alike now think and speak about
God in a way that veers so profoundly from the thinking of our
ancestors? Answering these questions with the same depth of
knowledge and profound insight that have marked all her acclaimed
books, Armstrong makes clear how 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. Yet she
cautions us that religion was never supposed to provide answers
that lie within the competence of human reason; that, she says, is
the role of logos. The task of religion is to help us live
creatively, peacefully, and even joyously with realities for which
there are no easy explanations. She emphasizes, too, that religion
will not work automatically. It is, she says, a practical
discipline: its insights are derived not from abstract speculation
but from "dedicated intellectual endeavor" and a"compassionate
lifestyle" that enables us to break out of the prison of selfhood.