This clip actually addresses my concern about the political vs. the philosophical. It describes Armstrong's intellectual evolution from skeptic to sympathetic historian.
-Mark
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love her.
“a definite … Dawkins-esque tinge to my work.”
and I’m picking up the book now
Hi all,
Enjoying this discussion immensely. The journalist and evolutionary psychology scholar Robert Wright has generated a fair amount of smart God talk. I particularly enjoyed the following clips…
…interviewing Karen Armstrong on her book, The Great Transformation:
http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=armstrong&topic=complete
(Interesting because he directly poses to her the question “Can an abstracted impersonal God provide religious solace?”)
…interviewing former Cambridge physics professor and Anglican priest Rev. John Polkinghorne:
http://meaningoflife.tv/video.php?speaker=polkinghorne&topic=complete
(Interesting because of Polkinghorne’s prior physics background, but also his determination to believe in a personal god despite its absurdities, because doing so is “less misleading”.)
…discussing his own recent book, The Evolution of God, with economics professor and NYT columnist Tyler Cowen:
http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/20509
(Interesting mostly because Tyler Cowen is just an intelligent and interesting guy.)
FWIW.
Thanks Daniel, will check those out.