2009, ISBN: 9780307269188

London: Quartet Books, 1983. Landscape glazed pictorial boards; 61pp; colour ills. Tanning to boards with light bumping to corners; previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper; toni… More...

London: Quartet Books, 1983. Landscape glazed pictorial boards; 61pp; colour ills. Tanning to boards with light bumping to corners; previous owner gift inscription to front endpaper; toning to pages, which are a little musty; light water mark to corner of rear pastedown and facing page corners. The adventures of Pushkin, the first Polar Bear known to have flown through space from the South to the North Pole, on his odyssey across the world.. First Edition.. Hard Cover. Good. Illus. by CASSON, Hugh., Quartet Books, 1983, 2.5, US: Knopf, 2009. First Edition. Hardback. Very Good/Very Good. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. 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 dimi nished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number o f people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of fai th. Why has God become unbelievable? Why is it that atheists and theists al ike now think and speak about God in a way that veers so profoundly from th e 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 au., Knopf, 2009, 3<

2009, ISBN: 0307269183

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2009, ISBN: 9780307269188

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include t… More...

Hardcover, All pages and cover are intact. Possible slightly loose binding, minor highlighting and marginalia, cocked spine or torn dust jacket. Maybe an ex-library copy and not include the accompanying CDs, access codes or other supplemental materials., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf]<

2009, ISBN: 9780307269188

Knopf, 2009-09-22. Hardcover. Acceptable. 5x0x8., Knopf, 2009-09-22, 2.5

2009, ISBN: 9780307269188

Knopf, 2009-09-22. Hardcover. Good. 5x0x8., Knopf, 2009-09-22, 2.5