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000921557 1001_ $$aArmstrong, Karen,$$d1944-$$eauthor.
000921557 24514 $$aThe lost art of Scripture :$$brescuing the sacred texts /$$cKaren Armstrong.
000921557 24630 $$aRescuing the sacred texts
000921557 250__ $$aFirst edition.
000921557 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bAlfred A. Knopf,$$c2019.
000921557 300__ $$a605 pages ;$$c25 cm
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000921557 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000921557 500__ $$a"A Borzoi Book."
000921557 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 511-578) and index.
000921557 50500 $$gPart one. Cosmos and society --$$tIsrael: remembering in order to belong --$$tIndia: sound and silence --$$tChina: the primacy of ritual --$$gPart two. Mythos --$$tNew story; new self --$$tEmpathy --$$tUnknowing --$$tCanon --$$tMidrash --$$tEmbodiment --$$tRecitation and intentio --$$tIneffability --$$gPart three. Logos --$$tSola scriptura --$$tSola ratio. Post-scripture.
000921557 520__ $$a"Today the Quran is used by some to justify war and acts of terrorism, the Torah to deny Palestinians the right to live in the Land of Israel, and the Bible to condemn homosexuality and contraception. The significance of Scripture--the holy texts at the centre of all religious traditions--may not be immediately obvious in our secular world but its misunderstanding is perhaps the root cause of most of today's controversies over religion. In this timely and important book, one of the world's leading commentators on religious affairs examines the meaning of Scripture. Today holy texts are not only used selectively to underwrite sometimes arbitrary and subjective views: they are seen to prescribe ethical norms and codes of behaviour that are divinely ordained--they are believed to contain eternal truths. But as Karen Armstrong shows in this fascinating trawl through millennia of religious history, this peculiar reading of Scripture is a relatively recent, modern phenomenon--and in many ways, a reaction to a hostile secular world. For most of their history, the world's religious traditions have regarded these texts as tools for the individual to connect with the divine, to transcend their physical existence, and to experience a higher level of consciousness that helped them to engage with the world in more meaningful and compassionate ways. Scripture was not a 'truth' that had to be 'believed.' Armstrong argues that only if the world's religious faiths rediscover such an open and spiritual engagement with their holy texts can they curtail the arrogance, intolerance and violence that flows from a narrow reading of Scripture as truth."--$$cProvided by publisher.
000921557 650_0 $$aSacred books$$xHistory and criticism.
000921557 650_0 $$aReligion and culture.
000921557 650_0 $$aReligions.
000921557 77608 $$iOnline version:$$aArmstrong, Karen, 1944-$$tLost art of scripture.$$dToronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2019$$z0345812360$$z9780345812360$$w(OCoLC)1103924231
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