The Catechism is the summary of the principles of the Christian religion, and it defines God like this: "God is the supreme spirit who alone exists of himself and is infinite in all perfections". Karen Armstrong thinks that this definition is mistaken. Why?

Karen Armstrong was a nun. She left her convent in the 1960s and maintained distance from the organized religion for thirteen years. Meanwhile, she worked in television and assignments on Jerusalem. She has studied the major religions of the world. Later she started writing books and published many of them. Her latest book is The Case for God. According to her, the divine personality mentioned in the religious scriptures is simply a symbol of greater transcendence which lays beyond it and hence we cannot tie down the god to one single instance of being but God means being itself that is everything around us.