Like Catching Water in a Net: Human Attempts to Describe the Divine - Hardcover

Val Webb

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826428916 ISBN 13: 9780826428912

Publisher: Continuum, 2007

Synopsis

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 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.

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About the Author

Val Webb is a lecturer in religion, with a graduate degree in science and a Ph.D. in theology. She is the author of 10 books, including Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian and In Defence of Doubt: an invitation to adventure. Her book John's Message: Good News for the New Millennium was commissioned by the World Methodist Council. She now lives in Mudgee, Australia, and continues to write and lecture. www.valwebb.com.au'

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826428916
• ISBN 13: 9780826428912
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272