Reviewer Notes for 'The Sacred History of Being' (2015)

Notes on Part One:
The Preface gives an outline overview of the book and its parts, and something of the context. One way to look at the book and its subject is as an extension of A.O. Lovejoy’s The Great Chain of Being, which examined the idea of Plenitude from the Classical Greeks onwards. SHB provides an extra nine hundred years to the history of the idea of Being, taking it back into the 14th century B.C.E.
The first chapter explains something of the authors background, and how he came to...