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The lost art of scripture : rescuing the sacred texts / Karen Armstrong.
The significance of Scripture - the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions - may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of most of today's controversies over religion. In this timely and important book, one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs examines the meaning of Scripture. Armstrong argues that only if the world's religious faiths rediscover such an open and spiritual engagement with their holy texts can they curtail the arrogance, intolerance and violence that flows from a narrow reading of Scripture as truth.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780345812346
- Physical Description: 605 pages ; 25 cm
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Subject: | Sacred books > History and criticism. Religion and culture. Religions. |
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- 6 of 6 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Smithers Public Library.
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- 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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| Smithers Public Library | ANF 208.2 ARM (Text) | 35101011040966 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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| 504 | . | ‡aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | |
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| 590 | . | ‡aFP 10,000(CDN) In this timely and important book, one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs examines the lost art of Scripture as a medium to lift humanity and change our perception of reality while evading logical explanation. Today holy texts are not only used selectively to underwrite sometimes arbitrary and subjective views: they are seen to prescribe ethical norms and codes of behaviour that are divinely ordained - they are believed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong shows in this fascinating trawl through millennia of religious history, this peculiar reading of Scripture is a relatively recent, modern phenomenon - and in many ways, a reaction to a hostile secular world. | |
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