Karen Armstrong

KAREN ARMSTRONG

Date of Birth: 1945
Birthplace: England
Current Residence: London, England
Education: Received doctorate from St. Anne's College, Oxford University
Profession: Former nun; Scholar, historian, teacher, television documentary writer.

Combining synoptic and interpretive historical manners, Armstrong...produces another splendid book that, for the considerable readership interested in religion, may prove to be a page-turner.
-Ray Olson, Booklist

As a young nun, I was taught to begin my morning meditation by picturing the biblical scene I was about to contemplate and so [I] conjured up my own image of the Garden of Gethsemane, the Mount of Olives, of the Via Dolorsoa. [But] now that I was going about my daily business among these very sites, I discovered that the real [Jerusalem] was a far more tumultuous and confusing place.
-Karen Armstrong, Jerusalem: One City, Three Faiths

[Armstrong's books] are timeless, reminders that authentic mystical insight is as Western as Eastern, part of the human heritage that unites us all. [Her work] is food for the soul.
-Larry Dossey, M.D.