Napier was a Christian theologian of the first order. Dean of Yale Divinity School at one point in his career.

This book is a poem cycle based in the stories of the book of Genesis in powerful language that describes the human truths that have described life on the planet since Genesis was written until now. It's not pretty, it's not sugar coated, and parts of it would likely offend certain Christians who have their own, uninformed, ideas about what stories are actually in the Bible.