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In the Beginning
Karen Armstrong is one of my favorite authors. So I was excited at the prospect of getting into her “interpretation” of Genesis. In The Beginning. Ordinarily Armstrong is an accessible writer about issues of religion. This book made me just a little confused and angry. Problem, the book doesn’t seem to know exactly what it is. It is not so much an interpretation of Genesis as a meditation of the fallenness of humankind, seen through the lens…