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A History of God is a book by Karen Armstrong that was published by Knopf in 1993. It details the history of the three major monotheistic traditions, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, along with some details on Buddhism and Hinduism. The evolution of the idea of God is traced from its ancient roots in the Middle East up to the present day.
The Evolution of God is a 2009 book by Robert Wright, in which the author explores the history of the concept of God in the three Abrahamic religions through a variety of means, including archaeology, history, theology, and evolutionary psychology.
John Dickson (born 1967) is an Australian author, Anglican cleric and historian of the ancient world, largely focusing on early Christianity and Judaism.Since 2022, he has been a professor at the graduate school of Wheaton College in the United States.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 9 February 2025. Philosophical question Part of a series on Theism Types of faith Agnosticism Apatheism Atheism Classical theism Deism Henotheism Ietsism Ignosticism Monotheism Monism Dualism Monolatry Kathenotheism Omnism Pandeism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism Specific conceptions Brahman ...
[10] While there is widespread scholarly agreement on the existence of Jesus [a] [11] and a basic consensus on the general outline of his life, [12] the portraits of Jesus constructed in the quests have often differed from each other and from the image portrayed in the gospel accounts.
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth [a] of both Judaism and Christianity, [1] told in the Book of Genesis ch. 1–2. While the Jewish and Christian tradition is that the account is one comprehensive story, [2] [3] modern scholars of biblical criticism identify the account as a composite work [4] made up of two stories drawn from different sources.
The Proof of the Living God - Arthur T. Pierson; History of the Higher Criticism - Dyson Hague; A Personal Testimony - Howard A. Kelly; Volume II: The Testimony of the Monuments to the Truth of the Scriptures - George Frederick Wright; The Recent Testimony of Archaeology to the Scriptures - Melvin Grove Kyle; Fallacies of the Higher Criticism ...
The book presents human history as a conflict between what Augustine calls the Earthly City (often colloquially referred to as the City of Man, and mentioned once on page 644, chapter 1 of book 15) and the City of God, a conflict that is destined to end in victory for the latter. The City of God is marked by people who forgo earthly pleasure to ...