A History of God
Based on Karen Armstrong’s acclaimed book, this feature-length film guides viewers along one of humanity’s most elusive quests.
For over 4,000 years, adherents of the world’s monotheistic faiths have wrestled with the question of God. This extraordinary, feature-length film, based on Karen Armstrong’s acclaimed book of the same name, traces that elusive and fascinating quest.
A History of God examines the familiar images of deity as presented in the Bible and Koran and traces the evolution and interrelation of the various Christian, Jewish, and Islamic interpretations of the divine figure. Through balanced analysis of historic and holy texts and extensive use of ancient art and artifacts, we’ll follow the long road to today’s understanding of God and what the journey–and the destination–have to tell us about humanity and its never-ending search for meaning and comfort.
From the time of Abraham to the present, this is a thought-provoking look at the God at the heart of the world’s three great monotheistic religions. (Excerpt from bbc.co.uk)
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June 30th, 2009 at 20:09
Well researched as the book was, and given in an unbiased and scholarly way. A thought provoking and interesting documentary showing us that the way we look at God has continually changed throughout history and will probably continue to do so in the future too.
July 4th, 2009 at 09:20
Is it just me, or is the voice talent reading scripture Gloria Foster (Oracle, from “The Matrix)?
July 4th, 2009 at 20:41
This was a very nice, slow paced and understandable movie.
If you don’t happen to know much about the three big(gest ?) religions you should try it.
Really good, i feel an infoboost right now
December 14th, 2009 at 05:04
This was very good. A compelling summary and interpretation of monotheistic history. Well worth the watch.
February 3rd, 2010 at 01:45
I want to go to sleep and delay (for tomorrow insh’ALLAH) my comments over a multitude of chocking statements, pictures and so on in this doc ,but I have first to comment on the statement of Armstrong, it’s unbelievebal she said ” Muslims circle around ALLAH “(The kaaba representing ALLAH)” :this is absolutely wrong and she contradict early statement in this doc, it contradicts the most important thing in Islam; tawhid.
It’s shirk, which is a supreme sin, to worship object, persons, prophets …I think that there is a Hadith stating that The blood of a muslim is hollier then the Kaaba which is the direction towards we pray, but we don’t pray to the kaaba; we don’t ask it to grant us paradise or sucess in our life and so on because it is a building not GOD.
in fact it is one of the classical paganistic traps of distortion of the real message.
March 9th, 2010 at 20:36
mnti do you know what kaaba is/(represent) in Islam?