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Fields of Blood - Religion...Violence by Karen Armstrong
28.00 NZD
Category: History
It is the most persistent myth of our time: religion is the cause of all violence. But history suggests otherwise. Karen Armstrong, former Roman Catholic nun and one of our foremost scholars of religion, speaks out to disprove the link between religion and bloodshed. * Religion is as old as humanity ...Show more
In the Beginning by Karen Armstrong
30.00 NZD
Category: Religion
The foundation stone of Jewish and Christian scriptures, the power of the "Book of Genesis" lies in its stories - "Creation", "the Fall", "Cain and Abel", "Noah", "Abraham", "Jacob" and "Joseph". These ancient tales illuminate some of our most enduring and profound problems: cowardice, the struggle with ...Show more
Muhammad : Prophet for our time (Eminent Lives) by Karen Armstrong
37.00 NZD
Category: Religion
From the bestselling writer of The History of God and the widely acclaimed Islam - A Short History comes another valuable addition to the Eminent Lives Series: Karen Armstrong's Muhammad. Muhammad recognized and seeked to transform a period in seventh-century Arabia, a spirit of the time he named j ...Show more
On The Bible by Karen Armstrong
30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction | Series: Ten Books That Changed the World S.
A ground-breaking explanation of the single most influential text of all time by the world's foremost religious historian. The Bible is the most widely distributed book in the world. Translated into over 2,000 languages, it is estimated that more than six billion copies have been sold in the last 200 ye ...Show more
Religion by Karen Armstrong
10.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
'Because 'God' is infinite, nobody can have the last word.'What is this thing, religion, which has supposedly been the cause of bloodshed and warring for centuries? What is 'God' and do we need 'Him' in our modern world? Karen Armstrong, bestselling author and one of the world's leading writers on relig ...Show more
Sacred Nature by Karen Armstrong
38.00 NZD
Category: Philosophy
An urgent manifesto and a practical guide on how to change our relationship with nature, by one of the world's leading writers on religion and spirituality 'KAREN ARMSTRONG IS A GENIUS' A.N. Wilson In this hugely powerful book, Karen Armstrong argues that if we want to avert environmental catastrophe, i ...Show more
Spiral Staircase by Karen Armstrong
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A raw, intensely personal memoir of spiritual exploration from one of the world's great commentators on religion. After seven years in a convent, which she left, dismayed by its restrictions, an experience recounted in 'Through the Narrow Gate', Karen Armstrong struggled to establish herself in a new wa ...Show more
St Paul by Karen Armstrong
37.00 NZD
Category: Religion
"St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Apostle We Love to Hate, he also exerted a more significant influence on the spread of Christianity throughout the ...Show more
St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle by Karen Armstrong
25.00 NZD
Category: Religion
Second-hand book in reasonable condition. Some wear on cover corners and edges. St Paul is known throughout the world as the first Christian writer, authoring fourteen of the twenty-seven books in the New Testament. But as Karen Armstrong demonstrates in St Paul: The Misunderstood Apostle, he also ex ...Show more
The Case for God: What Religion Really Means by Karen Armstrong
40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
The enormous popularity of books by Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris and others shows that despite the religious revival that is under way in many parts of the world, there is widespread confusion about the nature of religious truth. The militant atheism we are witnessing at present is ...Show more
The Great Transformation: The World in the Time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
30.00 NZD
Category: Religion
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire in fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. But why did Socrates, Buddha, Confucius, Jeremiah, Lao Tzu and others all emerge in this ...Show more
The Great Transformation : the world in the time of Buddha, Socrates, Confucius and Jeremiah by Karen Armstrong
40.00 NZD
Category: Religion
The centuries between 800 and 300 BC saw an explosion of new religious concepts. Their emergence is second only to man's harnessing of fire, fundamentally transforming our understanding of what it is to be human. First published 2006.