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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. And 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 prism of selfhood.”
- Karen Armstrong - Author
- Karen Armstrong - Narrator
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- ISBN: 9780307702401
- File size: 484691 KB
- Release date: September 22, 2009
- Duration: 16:49:46
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- ISBN: 9780307702401
- File size: 485122 KB
- Release date: September 22, 2009
- Duration: 16:49:46
- Number of parts: 14
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