This book is about the huge path that humanity has traveled from Paleolithic times to the present day, about attempts to convey the inexpressible sacred reality, to which people gave a variety of names: God, Brahman, Nirvana, Allah, Tao. Karen Armstrong illuminates the deepest mysteries of the religious worldview and reveals the most valuable things that wise people of the past have done. Modern views of God are just one, incredibly flawed and paradoxical, concept of the sacred among many grandiose religious, mystical and spiritual concepts that have existed for thousands of years. One of the best modern books about God and religions from a world famous author.