A HISTORY OF GOD --- THE 4,000-YEAR QUEST OF JUDAISM, CHRISTIANITY, AND ISLAM by Karen Armstrong. Alfred A. Knopf, 1994
    MAPS (pvii-xv)

    INTRODUCTION (pxvii-xxiii)

      As soon as they became recognizably "human" men and women, in their attempt to understand their own presence on planet Earth and the mysteries within and around them, began to worship "gods."

      This book explores the ways that the "idea" and "experience" of the concept of "God" evolved among the monotheists, which include Jews, Christians and Muslims.

    1) In the beginning... (p3-39)

    2) One God (p40-78)

    3) A light to the Gentiles (p79-106)

    4) Trinity --- the Christian God (p107-131)

    5) Unity --- the God of Islam (p132-169)

    6) The God of the philosophers (p170-208)

    7) The God of the mystics (p209-256)

    8) A God for reformers (p257-292)

    9) Enlightenment (p293-345)

    10) The death of God? (p347-376)

    11) Does God have a future? (p377-399)

    GLOSSARY (401-407)

    NOTES (p409-425)

    SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING (p428-436)

    INDEX (p437-460)

    A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR (p463)

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