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God : A Human History

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Outline: The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Zealot explores humanity's quest to make sense of the divine and sounds a call to embrace a deeper, more expansive understanding of God. In Zealot, the author replaced the staid, well-worn potrayal of Jesus of Nazareth with a startling new image of the man in all his contradictions. In his new book, the author takes on a subject even more immense: God, writ large. In layered prose and with thoughtful, accessible scholarship, the author narrates the history of religion as one long and remakably cohesive attempt to understand the divine by giving it human traits and emotions. According to this author, this innate desire to humanize God is hardwired in our brains, making it a central feature of nearly every religious tradition. As the author writes, "Whether we are aware of it or not, and regardless of whether we're belivers or not, what the vast majority of us think about when we think about God is a divine version of ourselves." But this projection is not without consequences. We bestow upon God not just all that is good in human nature - our compassion, our thirst for justice - but all that is bad in it: our greed, our bigotry, our penchant for violence. All these qualities inform our religions, cultures, and governments. More than just a history of our understanding of God, this book is an attempt to gt to the root of this humanizing impulse in order to develop a more universal spirituality. Whether you believe in one God, many gods, or no god at all, this book will challenge the way you think about the divine and its role in our everyday lives.

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No. Panggil

211 As51g

Penerbit

New York, USA : Random House., 2017

Deskripsi Fisik

298

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

97805533394733

Klasifikasi

211

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First Edition

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