Book description
'An amazingly wide-ranging book, showing that the world's religious texts can be a force for good today' John Barton, author of A History of the Bible
In our increasingly secular world, holy texts are at best seen as irrelevant, and at worst as an excuse to incite violence, hatred and…
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1 author picked The Lost Art of Scripture as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Karen Armstrong is one of my favorite writers on any topic and her approach to religion and religious history is both profound and based on great common sense. She has thought deeply and seriously about religious issues and one cannot read her books without doing the same. Consistently interesting, often profound, always insightful, this is a book you will want to read at a good, steady pace and not hurry through in order to absorb and reflect on the many lessons her book holds for our personal spiritual development as well as for gaining a better understanding of the great…
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