The idea of a single devine being - God, Yahweh, Allah - has existed for over 4,
000 years. But the history of God is also the history of human struggle. While
Judaism, Islam and Christianity proclaim the goodness of God, organised religion
has too often been the catalyst for violence and ineradicable prejudice. In this
fascinating, extensive and original account of the evolution of belief, Karen
Armstrong examines Western socitety's unerring fidelity to this idea of One God
and the man conflicting convictions it engenders. A controversial, extraordinary
sroty of worship and war, A HISTORY OF GOD confronts the most fundamental fact -
or fiction -