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Book
Karen Armstrong · 2009
Sequence ladder
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What this book knows
God is not a provable being but a practice — religion's truth is enacted, not believed, and modern literalism has forgotten this.
faith-and-doubt
Logos and mythos were both essential, neither superior; each had its own sphere — it was considered unwise to mix the two.
ARM-CFG-RC-003Religion was not primarily something that people thought but something they did. Its truth was acquired by practical action.
ARM-CFG-RC-005Perhaps we have too limited an idea of God. We have not been doing our practice and have lost the 'knack' of religion.
ARM-CFG-RC-008mind-and-cognition
Credo derives from cor do: 'I give my heart.' It originally meant trust, commitment, engagement — not intellectual assent.
ARM-CFG-RC-351It was impossible to achieve any knowledge of the reality we call God — we could neither prove nor disprove God's existence.
ARM-CFG-RC-225transformation
The only way to assess the value and truth of any myth was to act upon it — to make its truth a reality in your own life.
ARM-CFG-RC-004Illuminates
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