God: A Biography proposes that God, as an inwardly-conflicted solitary figure, realizes himself by creating the human race and then dealing with it and discovering why he wanted a self-image in the first place, how he wants to relate to it and what he must do for it and it must do for him. As understanding grows, activity lessens, until God falls into silent obsolescence, his story and laws preserved in the book that can be said to have formed Western civilization.