At the beginning of the twenty-first century, God has become boring and irrelevant, states Keith Ward in his thought-provoking new book, God: A Guide for the Perplexed.

Ward presents an investigation of the history of ideas about God that is marked by radical views, erudition and wit. He provides a journey through the philosophical and cultural heritage of the last 2000 years, drawing on such rich and diverse sources as the myths of the Greek gods on Mount Olympus, through the philosophy of St Augustine and Sartre, to wet Sunday afternoons and the movie Alien. The intellectual and theological legacies of almost every renowned thinker- believers and non-believers alike- are considered, from Aristotle to Ayers, Hegel to Heidegger, Al Ghazali to Sankara.