Mrs. Armstrong offers wonderful information. A must-read for anyone interested in religious studies. This was a great read. ( )

A tour de force through the history of the predominant Western human conceptions of God that have emerged, changed, co-merged, diverged, died out, and re-emerged across the centuries, across regions and cultures, and within religious communities.

While Armstrong does have a personal perspective in her writing, she is a powerhouse in history of religion.

If one is wanting a contemporary scholarly overview of the historical origins and developments of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; if one likes researched, dense text when compared to other popularizers; if one aspires to the Golden Rule and disdains fundamentalism of nearly all ilk; the reader will come away pleased and informed in the history of conceptions of, beliefs about, and practices concerning the conceptions of God in the history of the Western human civilization. ( )

Masterful! ( )

Why does God exist? How have the three dominant monorheistics religions shaped and altered the conception of God?

I just couldn't do it. I'm not much of a non-fiction reader, but I thought I'd try to expand my horizons. It is an interesting subject matter and written in a very acessibly way, but I just plain got bored about half way through. I was going to force my way to the end, but I found that I was avoiding reading altogether because I wasn't very into the book. It's a good book. Really. Just not for me- at least not at the moment.