An essential book for our times- a thoughtful, cultured response to Richard Dawkins
Karen Armstrong is one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs. She spent seven years as a Roman Catholic nun in the 1960s, but then left her teaching order in 1969 to read English at St Anne's College, Oxford. In 1982, she became a full time writer and broadcaster. She is a best-selling author of over 15 books. An accomplished writer and passionate campaigner for religious liberty, Armstrong has addressed members of the United States Congress and the Senate and has participated in the World Economic Forum.
One of our best living writers on religion...prodigiously sourced,
passionately written
*Financial Times*
A journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains
wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems
true... Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely
intelligent commentators on religion
*Observer*
A tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology,
philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins
and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat...Armstrong rejoices
in the unknowableness of life and searches, logically enough for
meaning therein
*Sunday Herald*
It isn't an easy read - why should it be? - but she is wonderfully
clear and insightful - and not out to convert anyone
*Daily Mail*
Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it
sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure
of us, not the book
*Sunday Times*
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