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"Because "God" is infinite, nobody can have the last word".
What is this thing, religion, supposedly the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is "God" and do we need "Him" in our modern world? Karen Armstrong looks again at these questions in a refreshing and startling way. God is not to be "believed in" as a child believes in Santa Claus; religion is not a story to be proven true or false, but a discipline akin to music or art that answers a deeply human need, and can teach us to discover new capacities of mind and heart.

This edition does not include illustrations.Britain’s greatest religious historian chronicles the rise and rise of fundamentalism.One of the most potent forces bedevilling the modern world is religious extremism, and the need to understand it has never been greater.Focusing in detail on Protestant fundamentalism in the United States, Jewish fundamentalism from sixteenth century Spain onwards and Muslim fundamentalism over the last four hundred years, Armstrong examines the patterns that underlie fundamentalism. These evolve from the clash between the conservative pre-modern mind that is governed by a love of myth, and the progressive rational society that relishes change. Fundamentalists view the contemporary world with horror, rejecting its claims to truth, and a state of war now exists over the future of our culture. They are not terrorists, rather, they are innovative, existing in a symbiotic relationship with an aggressive modernity, each urging the other on to greater excess.The Battle for God is original in its thesis and in its understanding; as a history of religious ideas it is fascinating, and as an explanation of one of the most destabilizing forces at large in the world today it is extraordinary.

Hebrews marks a parting of the ways for Jews and Christians of the first century. It makes a case for the superiority of the new Christian 'faith' over old Hebrew orthodoxy and draws on the Old Testament for precedents for Jesus's ministry and to paint a picture of Jesus.

Книги автора переведены на более сорока языков мира.
Доктор Армстронг превосходно знакома с всеми основными пластами человеческой культуры – от древнегреческой драматургии и истории ранних религиозных традиций до телеиндустрии двадцать первого века.
Эта книга о том, что сострадание может быть не только абстрактным идеалом, но и практическим принципом, в котором можно упражняться день за днем.
Доктор Армстронг использует в качестве шаблона известную общемировую Систему двенадцати шагов (к свободе от зависимости). Эти шаги представляют собой стройную систему реабилитации и изменения привычных моделей поведения. Такое же прикладное назначение имеют и шаги к подлинному состраданию, перечисленные в данной книге.
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The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the Book of Genesis lies in its stories - Creation, the Fall, Cain and Abel, Noah, Abraham, Jacob and Joseph. These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with evil, the difficulty of facing past mistakes, achieving a true understanding of our innermost selves. Karen Armstrong traces the themes and meanings of these stories, examining what they can still tell us about

The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this five-hundred-year span? And why do they have such similar ideas about humanity?In The Great Transformation, Karen Armstrong examines this phenomenal period and the

The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over two thousand languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last two hundred years alone. In this seminal account, Karen Armstrong traces the gestation of the Bible to reveal a complex and contradictory document created by scores of people over hundreds of years.
Karen Armstrong begins her analysis with the origi

“Human beings have always been mythmakers.” So begins best-selling writer Karen Armstrong’s concise yet compelling investigation into myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters right up to the “Great Western Transformation” of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The history of myth is the history of humanity, our stories and beliefs, our curiosity and attempts to understand the world, which link us to our ancestors and each other. Heralding a major series of retellings of international myths by authors from around the world, Armstrong’s characteristically insightful and eloquent book serves as a brilliant and thought-provoking introduction to myth in the broadest sense—and explains why if we dismiss it, we do so at our peril.

Through the Narrow Gate is Karen Armstrong’s memoir of life inside a Catholic convent in the 1960’s.With gentleness and honesty, Armstrong takes her readers on a revelatory journey that begins with her decision, at the age of seventeen, to devote her life to God as a nun. yet once she embarked upon her spiritual training, she encountered a frightening and oppressive world, fossilized by tradition, which moulded, isolated and pushed her to the limit of what she could endure.

From the bestselling writer of ‘The History of God’ and the widely acclaimed ‘Islam – A Short History’ comes Karen Armstrong's ‘Muhammad’.Muhammad was born in 570 C.E., and over the following sixty years built a thriving spiritual community, laying the foundations of a religion that changed the course of world history. There is more historical data on his life than on that of the founder of any other major faith, and yet his story is consistently misunderstood, and subject to much distortion and error. This story is more relevant now than ever, offering crucial insight into the true origins of an increasingly radicalized Islam.An acclaimed authority on religious and spiritual issues, Karen Armstrong offers a balanced portrait of this revered figure. Through comparison with other prophets and mystics, she illuminates Muhammad's spiritual ideas; she uses the facts of his life, from which Muslims have drawn instruction for centuries, to make the tenets of Islam clear and accessible for modern readers of all faiths.This is an immaculately researched new biography of Muhammad that dismantles centuries of misconceptions to reveal the man at the heart of Islam.

Piibel on raamat, mis on kujundanud tervet L??ne kultuuriruumi ja ajalugu ning mille eri t?lgendustest on s?ltunud riikide ja rahvaste saatused. Piiblit on t?lgitud rohkem kui 2000 keelde ning see on vaimseks teejuhiks igale kolmandale inimesele maailmas. Ometi on tegu keeruka tekstiga, mille kujunemislugu on pikk ja k??nakuterohke. Briti kirjanik ja ajaloolane Karen Armstrong vaatleb, mil moel suuliselt levinud ja v?ga erin?olistest allikatest p?rit p?rimustekstid muutusid kirjapandud p?hakirjaks, eri raamatutest koosnevaks kristluse baastekstiks ja kuidas erinevatel ajaj?rkudel on muutunud viis, mil moel Piiblit loetakse ning mida sealt otsitakse. Seda on oluline m?ista ajal, mil p?hakirjade ??rmuslikud t?lgendused v?ivad olla ajendiks vihale ja v?givallale. Just seep?rast on vajalik n?ha, mida p?hakiri endast kujutab ja mida mitte. Karen Armstrong (1944) on s?ndinud Suurbritannias. 18aastaselt astus ta Rooma-Katoliku kiriku alla kuuluvasse P?ha Jeesuslapse ?hingusse, et saada nunnaks. Seitse aastat hiljem lahkus ta sealt ja p?hendus ?pingutele Oxfordi ?likoolis. Ta on avaldanud ?le veerandsaja raamatu ja arvukalt artikleid, milles ta anal??sib religioonide t?htsust ning tutvustab erinevate religioonide ?hiseid arusaamu. Neist olulisimaks peab ta kaastunde p?him?tet. Eesti keeles on varem ilmunud Armstrongi raamatud „Islam” (Ilmamaa, 2003), „L?hike m??di ajalugu” (Eesti P?evaleht, 2006) ja „Jumala ajalugu” (Varrak, 2007). „„Piibel. Biograafia“ on apoloogia ?hest k?ljest kristliku fundamentalismi vastu, mis kohtleb teksti v??ralt, t?stes s?nas?naliselt ?he teksti esile teiste tekstide arvelt, ja mist?ttu toimub evangeeliumi jahmatav moonutamine. Teisalt on see apoloogia aga suunatud sekulaarse fundamentalismi vastu, mille kohta autor v?idab, et tegemist on religiooni suhtes samamoodi kitsarinnalise, eelarvamusliku ja ebat?pse arutlusega. K?esolev t?lketeos on Eesti oludes ajakohane ja vajalik, sest eksisteerib vajadus Piibli kui p?hakirja t?henduse ja tekkeloo kirjelduste ja nende selgituste ning k?simuse p?stituse j?rele, mis seostaks teksti kontekstiga ning aitaks kaasa m?elda praegusaja ?hiskonna aktuaalsetes usulistes probleemides. Nagu ka k?esoleva teose l?pus sedastatakse, on uskudevaheline m?istmine ja koost?? praegu elluj??miseks vajalikum kui kunagi varem.” Ergo Naab, PhD

Одна из тех редких книг, в которых блистательно сочетаются научная строгость и популярность изложения. Автор изучает острейшую проблему сегодняшнего времени – феномен фундаментализма, анализируя соответствующие течения в христианстве, иудаизме и исламе.

Книга о бурной многовековой истории Иерусалима: о жестокостях, творившихся во имя этого города, и о коротких периодах мира, благоденствия и терпимости. Книга ориентирована на широкую аудиторию. Карен Армстронг создала интереснейшее историческое исследование, которое рассматривает иудаизм, христианство и ислам как единую традицию, развитие которой шло тремя разными путями. Книга будет пользоваться успехом не только у интересующихся историей и религией, но и у путешественников, рассматривающих священный город как важное и знаковое место на карте своих путешествий.