Sacks, Jonathan

This major work in moral philosophy and theology should engage all readers, but particularly scholars, undergraduates, and graduate students.

While Sacks has no recipe to cure religious violence, he successfully illustrates the roots of responsibility in this terrible dynamic. A worthy read that is sure to spur conversation.

Sacks’s accessible narrative style and his ease in discussing science, philosophy, and the Jewish tradition ensure the book’s importance to readers concerned with contemporary debate involving science, atheism, religion, and politics. Specialists may find the lack of an index an impediment to serious use of the book.