The Case for God pdf

凯伦·阿姆斯特朗博士是一位英国作家，对比较宗教和伊斯兰教很感兴趣。她写了许多关于宗教问题的书籍，包括：上帝的历史、上帝的战斗、圣战、伊斯兰教：简史、大转变、和别的。她很快将出版另一本英文书，标题为：血场：宗教与暴力史。我还写了两个故事：穿过窄门和螺旋楼梯。她的作品已被翻译成五十多种语言。 凯伦博士曾三次向美国国会议员发表演讲，为美国国务院和国防部的政策制定者讲课，参加世界经济论坛，是联合国不同文明联盟大使，并多次在美国发表演讲穆斯林国家，尤其是巴基斯坦、马来西亚、新加坡、土耳其和印度尼西亚。 2007 年，埃及政府授予她一枚勋章，以表彰她在爱资哈尔的赞助下为伊斯兰教服务所做的努力，她是第一位获得该勋章的外国人。 2009 年，她获得了富兰克林和埃莉诺·罗斯福研究所颁发的宗教自由四项自由奖章，以及 2009 年蒂宾根大学的 Leopold Lukas 博士奖。2013 年，她是第一个获得由英国学院表彰她在发展世界文化之间的关系方面所做的努力。2014 年亚特兰大纪念社区建设者甘地/金/池田奖。她是大英博物馆馆长和皇家文学院院士。 2008 年 2 月，她因对《慈悲宪章》(www.charterforcompassion.org) 的远见而获得 TED 奖，该奖项由来自世界六大信仰的一群杰出思想家编写，旨在将慈悲的思维和同情心恢复到道德上。和政治生活。慈悲宪章正在世界各地的许多国家、城市、学校和宗教团体中创造性地和现实地实施。

The Case for God pdf 凯伦阿姆斯特朗

Moving from the Paleolithic age to the present, Karen Armstrong details the great lengths to which humankind has gone in order to experience a sacred reality that it called by many names, such as God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, or Dao. 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. 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.”