A Toxic Panacea: A Made-Up History of the Bible
Author: Karen Armstrong
Karen Armstrong’s short, eight chapter opus, attempts to take in several thousand years of history, showing an evolution of the Bible from oral tradition, to written inception, to various different readings and philosophies. Karen Armstrong, respected historian now, is also an ex-Roman Catholic nun who left the faith after her horrible treatment in the pre Vatican II era. As such, readers who find out the history of the author are a little weary that her own unfortunate treatment (simply unforgivable when you read her back history) might color her perception of religion. While I, as a reader and an amateur Biblical scholar seeking to strengthen my faith with knowledge of all arguments both for and against Christianity, cannot speak to either the sincerity or knowledge of Ms. Armstrong, the representation of her theorems as factual and the supposed % understanding of every moment that occurred in the Biblical history undermines her authority, especially since she speaks her ideas as gospel and does not reference other scholars or interpretations (with the exception of a lengthy appendix which takes up th
Karen Armstrong
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Karen Armstrong (b. November 14 in Wildmoor, Worcestershire, England) is an author who writes on Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Buddhism. Armstrong is a former nun, now a "freelance monotheist" [1]. She has advanced the theory that fundamentalist religion is a response to and product of modern culture. She was born into a family with Irish roots who, after her birth, moved to Bromsgrove and later to Birmingham. According to professor Juan Eduardo Campo, Karen Armstrong has been influential in conveying the more objective postth-century scholarship of Islam to a wide readership in Europe and North America.[2]
Life
From to , Karen Armstrong was a nun in the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. This was a teaching order, and once she had advanced from postulant and novice to professed nun, she was sent to St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she studied English. Armstrong left the order during her course of study. After graduating, she embarked on a D. Phil. (still at Oxford) on Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She continued to work on it while later teaching at the University of London, but her
Karen Armstrong is one of the best known and most popular writers on religion today. She has authored twelve books, including the best-seller A History of God, and created a six-part documentary television series in England on the life of Saint Paul. At age seventeen she took vows of chastity and poverty, and entered the Roman Catholic order of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus. Seven years later she left the convent and in published her first book, Through the Narrow Gate, which chronicles her life as a nun. Shortly thereafter she published a second autobiographical book about the religious life, Beginning the World.
Ms. Armstrong studied at Oxford University, where she read literature and wrote a doctoral thesis that was subsequently rejected by an external examiner and which prompted her departure from academia. She took a position teaching English at a girls' school for several years, and is presently teaching Christianity at London's Leo Baeck College for the Study of Judaism.
Armstrong's achievements as an independent scholar focusing on the three great monotheistic religions, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, have earned her a reputation as a major contributor
Karen Armstrong life and biography
Karen Armstrongbecame a household name in the United Kingdom in the s, thanks to her best-selling books Through the Narrow Gate and Beginning the World, her autobiographical accounts of her life in a Roman Catholic convent during the s. She followed with a successful TV documentary series on St. Paul, and during the '90s she earned a reputation as one of the world's most successful writers on religion, with books such as Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet (), A History of God (), and Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths (). Also a part-time university teacher, Armstrong has also published a brief biography of Buddha (), a second biography of Muhammad called Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time () and another memoir, The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness ().
Author of books:
Through the Narrow Gate ()
The First Christian: Saint Paul's Impact on Christianity ()
Beginning the World ()
Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic Experience ()
The Gospel According to Woman: Christianity's Creation of the Sex War in the
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