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The interview of Karen Armstrong, “Coming to Terms With God in a Newly Religious Age” (Opinion, Dec. 22), made me wonder how many others are caught in the same trap as Armstrong.
Dec. 31, 1996
Books
Former nun Karen Armstrong has achieved success as a popular theology writer and commentator.
April 4, 2004
Science & Medicine
‘The Evolution of God’ by Robert Wright and ‘The Case for God’ by Karen Armstrong
Oct. 11, 2009
Entertainment & Arts
How religion tamed the human species; how a form of theological expression from the Middle Ages could help us recover our understanding of God.
“A God-shaped hole” is how Jean-Paul Sartre described the longing in human consciousness for an all-powerful deity, and Salman Rushdie once observed that he tried to fill the hole with literature.
Oct. 6, 1993
As Karen Armstrong emphasizes in “Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths,” Jerusalem was founded by an obscure people called the Jebusites at some unknowable date in the distant past.
Dec. 29, 1996
ISLAM, A Short History, By Karen Armstrong, The Modern Library, $19.95, 224 pages
Sept. 16, 2000
Buddhists speak of the “third half of life,” and at age 70, Karen Armstrong is well into what might be called the third half of her career.
Nov. 13, 2014
‘Real Housewives’ death could be linked to divorce
Aug. 16, 2011
BUDDHA By Karen Armstrong; Viking / Lipper; $19.95, 206 pages
Feb. 24, 2001