The Case for God

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 – Alain de Botton * 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 *Forget Richard Dawkins - just read it with an open mind – Jeanette WintersonArmstrong makes a wise and passionate case for a God of myth rather than reason, of wisdom rather than knowledge * Financial Times *This is a stunned appreciation of an ‘otherness’ beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion * New Statesmen *

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.