I have heard that while authors provide the content for their books, publishers choose the titles. Karen Armstrong's The Case for God might be an example of this. The title sounds like she is defending God against atheism. In fact, the book has a good deal to say about religion, not much about atheism (although the advent of atheism is clearly part of its context) and is fairly ambivalent about the word "God". Karen Armstrong has written widely on religious subjects and has a strong bent for comparative religion. After a stint in a Catholic religious order as a young adult, she initially abandoned faith altogether before coming back to a more open and inclusive spirituality, embracing lessons and practices from a variety of sources in a manner reminiscent of Joseph Campbell . The Case for God covers similar territory to Alister McGrath's The Twilight of Atheism , but it both travels back further and delves more deeply into the religious background to th
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