By Rodney Stark

ISBN-10: 0061173894

ISBN-13: 9780061173899

ISBN-10: 0061626015

ISBN-13: 9780061626012

Winner of the 2008 Christianity Today Award of benefit in Theology/Ethics

The historical past of God

In Discovering God, award-winning sociologist Rodney Stark offers a enormous heritage of the origins of the nice religions from the Stone Age to the trendy Age and wrestles with the vital questions of faith and belief.

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