Enjoyed this book as an experience, although my expectation of a title like "Case for God" is a "logos" argument. What Armstrong delivers instead is an history of the mythos of religion: that only recently has religion made literalism an idol, and that our current over-logos-ization is the result of an adversarial cycle between fundamentalists and critics. It was gratifying to see her sketch the outlines of modern American fundamentalism, which is often obscured by the groups' own origin myths and our temporal proximity.

I think Armstrong misses an opportunity to connect the reactive wave of "spiritual, but not religious" to a return of people's desire for mythos in modern life. She doesn't make an explicit altar call back to mythos and kenosis-driven religious experience, but the implication is there.