PositiveThe San Francisco ChronicleAslan is a born storyteller, and there is much to enjoy in this intelligent survey. Aslan is also eager to display his academic bona fides; a massive bibliography and endnotes (many comprised of extended extracts from other scholars) comprise nearly a third of the book. His treatment of the Western tradition, however, may strike some readers as somewhat cursory ... But Aslan’s book is not simply a historical study, but one with a trajectory in mind — the human history of God leads him to embrace pantheism as a spiritual option.
