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Why do Muslims believe God is omnipresent? Why do Christians believe God is omnipresent? Why do Orthodox Jews believe God is omnipresent? I don't think Yahweh the God of War whispered into Moses' ear that he was secretly omnipresent. I don't think Jesus of Nazareth said he was omnipresent. 

What if the most consequential rebrand in religious history started in a Greek classroom twenty‑six centuries ago? We trace the audacious claim that Anaximander’s abstract “primary substance” evolved into a portable creator concept—one that scaled across borders, promised afterlife, and reframed sin, judgment, and atonement. 

As we follow that idea into Jewish, Christian, and Muslim contexts, we see how the allure of cosmology reshaped expectations of God from a local, embodied presence to an omnipresent, incomprehensible agent of creation.

ANNE BOLEYN, MOTHER OF THE NATION" is available to buy.  

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