Yesterday’s New York Sun features a review of Rémi Brague’s new book The Law of God: The Philosophical History of an Idea. Comparing Brague’s newest work with his fascinating cultural history of cosmology, The Wisdom of the World, reviewer Adam Kirsch writes:

In The Law of God, Mr. Brague undertakes another journey through the buried continent of the ancient and medieval mind. But his topic this time—the idea of divine law, as it was understood from the ancient Greeks through the Muslim, Christian, and Jewish middle ages—does not seem nearly so remote. Humanity has long conceded that the structure of the inanimate world is the province of science. But most of us continue to believe that the moral law has other, deeper sources. …
That is why The Law of God strikes the reader with more intimate force than The Wisdom of the World. Mr. Brague’s earlier book was archaeology, the digging up of something dead and buried; his new one is genealogy, tracing the descent of ideas that are still living. …
Brague’s sense of intellectual adventure is what makes his work genuinely exciting to read. The Law of God offers a challenge that anyone concerned with today’s religious struggles ought to take up.