Short description
In this sweeping narrative that spans the Stone Age to the Information Age, Wright's findings that overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are sure to cause controversy.
Long description
In this sweeping narrative that takes us from the Stone Age to the Information Age, Robert Wright unveils an astonishing discovery: there is a hidden pattern that the great monotheistic faiths have followed as they have evolved. Through the prisms of archaeology, theology, and evolutionary psychology, Wright's findings overturn basic assumptions about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and are sure to cause controversy. He explains why spirituality has a role today, and why science, contrary to conventional wisdom, affirms the validity of the religious quest. And this previously unrecognized evolutionary logic points not toward continued religious extremism, but future harmony.
Nearly a decade in the making, The Evolution of God is a breathtaking re-examination of the past, and a visionary look forward.
Review
Last year I read a book which influenced me greatly by a man named Robert Wright. It's called Nonzero, and, did you ever read a book where somebody says what you've been thinking, and you immediately decide the author is a genius?