‘How the West Made the World’ has lots going for it, including Quinn’s range, scholarship, and prose. But lovers of big history, and pastors interested in why the West is the way it is, may want to look elsewhere first.
We know who God is and what he’s doing in the world, not in abstraction but in his mighty historical acts.
Yahweh is the Lord of all nations and he works through people for justice in spite of the rage and mayhem of the times.
Science and enlightenment are central to the Western imagination, and both display the unmistakable signs of evolution from a common ancestor.
While digging deep in the past for help in our present moment, Fred Sanders writes, don’t discount what happened in between.
