An ideal stocking filler for anyone who enjoys singing and belting out top Christmas tunes

A journey through religion that helps us to rescue what remains wise from so much that to many in Britain today no longer seems true... Armstrong is one of the the handful of wise and supremely intelligent commentators on religion

A tour de force of learning. A hefty history of theology, philosophy and science, and how they converge, it knocks Dawkins and Hitchens into an intellectual cocked hat...Armstrong rejoices in the unknowableness of life and searches, logically enough for meaning therein

It isn't an easy read - why should it be? - but she is wonderfully clear and insightful - and not out to convert anyone

Dense and brilliant, chastening and consoling. Whether or not it sells as well as the latest Hitchens or Dawkins will be a measure of us, not the book

Forget Richard Dawkins - just read it with an open mind

Armstrong makes a wise and passionate case for a God of myth rather than reason, of wisdom rather than knowledge

This is a stunned appreciation of an 'otherness' beyond the reach of language, and for Armstrong, constitutes the heart of every religion

Soskice tells the story with scholarly conviction... [This] biography is one to be earmarked

An ambitious and attractive book. Its tone is learned, thoughtful and usually intimate...a finely balanced and well-told experiment that will echo with many readers