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Val Webb is a university lecturer in religion who divides her time between the U.S. and Austrailia. She teacher every year at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota and Whitley College in Melbourne. In Like Catching Water in a Net, Val Webb is not out to prove the existence of a God, but to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the literature of the worlds 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 writings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religions of ancient Mesopotamians, their kin the Israelites, and the Aboriginal people of her beloved Australia, as well as Christian traditions. Why have so many societies throughout history suspected there is Something Bigger than themselves? What is the difference between knowing Something exists and knowing what that Something might be (or not be)? And what about arguments against the existence of God at all? Webb poses a critical challenge to the way traditional Christianity has straitjacketed Western notions of God and traces the lines of intersection and divergence of various religions in order to offer fresh ways to consider Something More in todays multifaith world.--BOOK JACKET. Val Webb attempts to set out intuitions or intimations of the Divine nature and attributes from the stories and poems of the worlds religions.

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Winner of USA Book Award

By reader from Australia on 12/28/2007

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Challenging, Deserves Multiple Readings, Informative, Page-Turner, Well Written

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This book is the winner of the "religion: general" category in the USA Best Books 2007 Awards

this book will change lives

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from Australia on 12/3/2007

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Deserves Multiple Readings, Informative, Page-Turner, Well Written

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Gift, pass it on to friends

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Everyday Reader

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Yes, I would recommend this to a friend

This is the book I’ve been waiting for. It’s for the thousands of people who miss the faith community of the church, but cannot reconcile their intellect with what they hear from the pulpit. It’s for the millions of people who call themselves “spiritual” but are unable to fully accept one religion lock, stock and barrel. This can be a lonely place, and it turns out there are an awful lot of us being lonely together.
Val Webb reveals the development of Christian thought (and its resonances with other religious traditions throughout the ages) in a scholarly but totally accessible way. What is truly revelatory, however, is how little of what we hear from the pulpit is in line with modern progressive Christianity. Why on earth are ministers not honestly preaching what they undoubtedly hear in theological college? Why are they “dumbing down” for the sake of a congregation that they assume only want simplistic absolutes? If more of the clergy had the courage to communicate what is going on among the key contemporary thinkers of Christianity I have no doubt the churches would be full.
This book is full of those “ah ha” moments where your ill formed and too-frightening-to-say-at-study-group thoughts are articulated with stunning clarity, honesty and good humour. Thank you Val Webb for treating the average person in the pew with such respect.
Give this book to all your friends. It will change lives.

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