A review by makraemer
God: An Anatomy by Francesca Stavrakopoulou
4.0
Entertaining and educational look at the religions of Southwest Asia over the millennia. New knowledge I took away and found interesting:
1. The transition of gods from a very physical presence to the hidden/spiritual interactions today
2. The family of God: wife, daughter, son, brothers, sisters, father, mother
3. The morphing of even older stories and mythologies into the ones we know today, some simply exchanging names and places.
I would recommend for anyone interested in the origins of the Western religions we know today and how belief and practice changed, especially in how we felt, heard, saw our deities.
1. The transition of gods from a very physical presence to the hidden/spiritual interactions today
2. The family of God: wife, daughter, son, brothers, sisters, father, mother
3. The morphing of even older stories and mythologies into the ones we know today, some simply exchanging names and places.
I would recommend for anyone interested in the origins of the Western religions we know today and how belief and practice changed, especially in how we felt, heard, saw our deities.