Val Webb attempts to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and poems of the world's religions. ***?In Like Catching Water in a Net,*** Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out...
Val Webb attempts to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and poems of the world's religions.
***?In Like Catching Water in a Net,*** Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and literature of the world's religions. Casting her net more widely than Karen Armstrong in *The History of God* or Jack Miles in *God: A Biography*, Webb delves deeply into the poetry and sayings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religion of the ancient Mesopotamians, their kin the Israelites, and the Aboriginal people of her own beloved Australia.
Raised in the Christian fundamentalist tradition, she poses a critical challenge to the ways in which traditional Christianity has straitjacketed our Western notions of the Divine, here aligning herself with modern "mystics" like William James, Leo Tolstoy, and Florence Nightingale. In the final chapter, she shows how the process theology of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, and their contemporary followers is quite compatible with so many of the traditional notions about God surveyed in the book. ***-Publisher.***
National Best Books 2007 Award-Winner in Religion
**"Insightful, imaginative, and provocative! Val Webb's new book has freed the Divine from the religious. A striking achievement."-John Shelby Spong, author of*Jesus for the Non-Religious***
**In*Like Catching Water in a Net*, Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and literature of the world's religions. Casting her net more widely than Karen Armstrong in*The History of God*orJack Miles in*God: A Biography*, Webb delves deeply into the poetry and sayings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religion of the ancient Mesopotamians, their kin the Israelites, and the Aboriginal people of her own beloved Australia.**
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Val Webb attempts to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and poems of the world's religions. ***?In Like Catching Water in a Net,*** Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out...
Val Webb attempts to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and poems of the world's religions.
***?In Like Catching Water in a Net,*** Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and literature of the world's religions. Casting her net more widely than Karen Armstrong in *The History of God* or Jack Miles in *God: A Biography*, Webb delves deeply into the poetry and sayings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religion of the ancient Mesopotamians, their kin the Israelites, and the Aboriginal people of her own beloved Australia.
Raised in the Christian fundamentalist tradition, she poses a critical challenge to the ways in which traditional Christianity has straitjacketed our Western notions of the Divine, here aligning herself with modern "mystics" like William James, Leo Tolstoy, and Florence Nightingale. In the final chapter, she shows how the process theology of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, and their contemporary followers is quite compatible with so many of the traditional notions about God surveyed in the book. ***-Publisher.***
National Best Books 2007 Award-Winner in Religion
**"Insightful, imaginative, and provocative! Val Webb's new book has freed the Divine from the religious. A striking achievement."-John Shelby Spong, author of*Jesus for the Non-Religious***
**In*Like Catching Water in a Net*, Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God or the Divine, but to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and literature of the world's religions. Casting her net more widely than Karen Armstrong in*The History of God*orJack Miles in*God: A Biography*, Webb delves deeply into the poetry and sayings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religion of the ancient Mesopotamians, their kin the Israelites, and the Aboriginal people of her own beloved Australia.**
Like Catching Water in a NET$36.99
Koorong code271221
ISBN9780826428912
Pages272
PublisherBloomsbury Continuum Publishing Group
Publication date15 December 2007
Dimensions26 x 152 x 228mm
Weight0.243kg
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""""Like Catching Water in a Net: Human Attempts to Describe the Divine"""" is the winner in the """"religion: general"""" category of the USA Best Books 2007 Awards. Australian religion commentator Geraldine Doogue says of the book """"Val Webb makes moderation and nuance sparkling. What a considerable contribution that is! Searching for the sacred within everyday life sounds lofty, but many modern people do it, quietly and humbly, and feel quite unaccompanied. This book respects them and their curiosity as vital for our times. """" Val Webb is an Australian theologian who teaches both in Australia and the United States.
