In defence of doubt: An Invitation to Adventure - Softcover

Webb, Dr Val

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1925208354 ISBN 13: 9781925208351

Publisher: Morning Star Publishing Pty. Ltd., 2016

Synopsis

While doubt is encouraged in most disciplines, somehow in religion we have been expected to abandon all creative thinking and just believe, blaming ourselves for our doubts. This is more about authority and belief systems than about faith; and certainly not the experience of the great cloud of witnesses before us, courageously lurching from one doubt to the next, believing they were nudged by God through their doubts.Doubts are not preying forces of evil but tantalising carrots, enticing us to new territory and allowing us to throw out outgrown dogmas for richer experiences. This book invites readers to drag their doubts out from under the rug and celebrate them for the gifts they are, just as a scientist anticipates fresh resolution with each doubt investigated. 'One of my favorite books' - Maurice Harris, The Accidental Rabbi (https://theaccidentalrabbi.wordpress.com/)

About this title

About the Author

Val Webb is an Australian who holds a graduate degree in science and a Ph.D. in theology. She has taught in universities in the United States and Australia and has written nine books including Like Catching Water in a Net: human attempts to describe the Divine which won the religion category of Best Books USA Award in 2007. She now lives in Mudgee, Australia. (www.valwebb.com.au)

Edition details

• Publisher: Morning Star Publishing Pty. Ltd.
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1925208354
• ISBN 13: 9781925208351
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 194