The beginnings of salvation history
Warren Carroll is at the top of his game in this sweeping, sometimes lyrical discussion of the earliest history of mankind through the founding of Christendom. Unlike almost all other histories of this or any era, he does not flinch at going beyond the events themselves to explore their broader meaning as they inform the origins and nature of what it means to be human, how the world and mankind developed, and why we are the way we are. The broad outlines of all of reality as we know it are here for the discerning reader, assuming a willingness to acknowledge that the natural realm must necessarily derive from the supernatural, and that the latter can be seen, through a glass darkly, in the events and written evidence of these earliest days of civilization.
