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Karen Armstrong: A History of God (Paperback, 1994) No rating

Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monotheistic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam—shaped and …

A fundamentalist would deny this, since fundamentalism is antihistorical: it believes that Abraham, Moses and the later prophets all experienced their God in exactly the same way as people do today. Yet if we look at our three religions, it becomes clear that there is no objective view of “God”: each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.

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