Publishers Weekly

God: An Anatomy

Biblical scholar Stavrakopoulou convincingly argues for understanding the Christian God as an embodied being in this fascinating comparative mythology. Despite encountering “broad assumption” among ...
Jewish Journal

Examining a Deity Made in Our Own Image

Jack Miles embraced an audacious literary device in his masterwork, “God: A Biography,” which presents the life story of the Almighty as if the authors of the Bible were telling the life story of a ...
The Economist

A theologian presents God as few readers will have seen him before

God: An Anatomy. By Francesca Stavrakopoulou. Picador; 608 pages; £25. To be published in America by Knopf in January; $35 PROFESSORS OF THEOLOGY are imagined to be dull, gentle souls. This book, ...
Hyperallergic

What Does God Even Look Like?

Guiart des Moulins, "God" from BL Harley 4381, f. 4 (1403-1404); detail of miniature of God , pigment on parchment codex, written in French with some Latin for frontispiece; (courtesy the British ...