God: A Human History
A sweeping account of how humans have always made God in their own image, from cave paintings to the invention of monotheism.
Aslan traces the human impulse to imagine God in our own image, from prehistoric cave art and the first agricultural deities through the emergence of monotheism in the ancient Near East. His argument is that we have consistently humanised the divine, granting it our emotions, our politics and our appetites, and that this projection shapes what believers then do in its name. The sweep is vast and the treatment brisk, ending in a personal statement of his own pantheism.
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