A review by dayseraph
A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam by Karen Armstrong

4.0

This took me a long time to read but significantly less time than 4,000 years. It was a fascinating and very detailed history of the ways that we have conceptualized God back to the days of Abraham. Along the way, I learned some fun facts to bring up at a party (when you're the weird conversationalist at a party), but more importantly, this made me really think about what God means to contemporary Jews, Christians, and Muslims and what God has meant over time and what is "absolute" in theology.

A History of God is promoted as being an approachable read, and in many ways it is. But it wouldn't be the first book I would recommend to someone looking to explore these ideas as it is overflowing with concepts that can be overwhelming.

I particularly enjoyed the sections One God (2), The God of the Mystics (7), and Does God Have a Future? (11).