Een geschiedenis van God
vierduizend jaar jodendom, christendom en islam
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- Nederlandse Boeken
- Paperback 511 Pages
- ISBN-10: 9023422643
- ISBN-13: 9789023422648
- Publisher: De Bezige Bij
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback
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A history of how we think of God
This is not a history of who God is, but a history of how human beings have thought about God and experienced God. Armstrong describes the history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also draws links with Buddhism, philosophy and other 'belief-systems'. Armstrong's thesis is that any reli ... (continue)
This is not a history of who God is, but a history of how human beings have thought about God and experienced God. Armstrong describes the history of Judaism, Christianity and Islam, but also draws links with Buddhism, philosophy and other 'belief-systems'. Armstrong's thesis is that any religion can only survive if it re-invents itself so that the God that it worships is useful for the worshippers. If it does not, and thinks of its creeds as eternally, universally and literally true, it will fade. Religion is a matter of human imagination. Our imagination transcends our reason and directs human beings to what they call 'god' (or any other name we have given it). Once we started to rationalize God and began thinking of him as objectively 'out there', instead of inside us, the road was paved for atheïsm. One of the interesting things of this book is that Armstrong thinks that 'atheïsm' is not something new. Atheïsm is nothing more than a shift in our thinking about god. Atheïsts can no longer live with the status quo and start to explore new ways of explaining the mystery of life.
In the last chapter Armstrong draws lessons for the future. We lost God as we knew him, but we will find a way to fill that vacancy. God should not be something 'out there', as if we could understand him. But we should also be aware of an all too emotionally outrageous faith (e.g. charismatic evangelicals) that considers god to be a person that gives us everything we want here and now.
Fantastic book!
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