Like Catching Water in a Net: Human Attempts to Describe the Divine
Autor Dr Val Webben Limba Engleză Hardback – 14 dec 2007
"Insightful, imaginative, and provocative! Val Webb's new book has freed the Divine from the religious. A striking achievement."-John Shelby Spong, author ofJesus for the Non-Religious
InLike 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 inThe History of Godor Jack Miles inGod: 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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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780826428912
ISBN-10: 0826428916
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 159 x 238 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0826428916
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 159 x 238 x 26 mm
Greutate: 0.54 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States
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Caracteristici
Beautifully
written
book
on
a
topic
of
perennial
interest,
than
which
there
can
be
no
greater
(like
Anselm's
proof
for
the
existence
of
God).
Cuprins
Preface 1.
Is
Something
Out
There?
2.
Metaphorically
Speaking...3.The
GOD
Who
Is
Not...4.
To
Be...or
Not
to
Be?
5.
What's
in
a
Name?
6. Feathers
on
the
Breath
of
GOD
7.
Where
Can
I
Go
from
Your
Spirit?
8.
Nature
Speaks
9.
Divine
Attributes: God
Is
Like...
10.
The
Power
of
the
One
11.
Imago
Dei
12.
In
the
Family
Way
13.
The
Bible
Tells
Me
So...
14.
Who
Do
You
Say
I
Am?
15.What
Is
Truth?
Recenzii
"An
absorbing
book
written
with
a
lightness
of
touch,
but
grounded
in
deep
knowledge
and
experience.
As
writer,
teacher,
artist,
trained
theologian
and
scientist,
Val
Webb
draws
on
an
amazing
storehouse
of
ideas
and
explores
in
vivid,
often
unexpected
ways
the
myriad
of
symbols
and
images
that
disclose
the
Divine
in
the
contemporary
world.
Chosen
from
a
host
of
multireligious
sources,
including
the
rich
biblical
heritage
of
Jews
and
Christians,
but
also
science
and
nature,
her
work
celebrates
the
ever
elusive,
mysterious
Divine
Presence,
Power
and
Life
in
many
original,
refreshing
ways,
even
as
Communication
itself.
This
is
an
intensely
personal
book
packed
with
critical
comment,
insight
and
wisdom.
Its
searching
questions
and
reflections
can
inspire
a
wide
group
of
readers
in
their
own
attempts
to
decipher
the
wealth
of
symbols
speaking
to
us
about
Divine
Reality
today."-Ursula
King,
Professor
Emerita
of
Theology
and
Religious
Studies,
University
of
Bristol
"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
Award-Winner in the Religion: General category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards.
"Val Webb isn't out to prove the existence of a god, but to point out imitations of the Divine nature from the literature on the world's religions. Thus her survey includes range of world beliefs, from Buddhism and Hindu mystics to early Mesopotamians and the Aboriginals of Australia. The result is a critical challenge to the thinking processes of traditional Christianity and a challenge to readers to broaden their view of what constitutes spiritual thinking. Spirituality collections will find it invaluable." -James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review, February 2008
"Val Webb is a writer, teacher, artist, theologian and scientist who weaves knowledge and experience together as she encourages the reader to open themselves to a myriad of metaphors, symbols and images that reveal the divine across cultures, relgions and centuries." - Journey
"A lecturer in religion at universities in the US and Australia, Webb offers an absorbing book of metaphorical theology, one that follows the many and varied traces of the Divine in history. To this end, she explores the writings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religions of the ancient Mesopotamians, the ethical monotheism of the ancient Israelites, the stress on the Creating Rainbow Spirit among the Aboriginal people, and theologies associated with traditional as well as progressive Christian traditions...Webb upholds process theism as the most fruitful, satisfying way to describe the Divine today. This astute book carries wide appeal." -Darren J.N. Middleton, Religious Studies Review, September 2008
"Like Catching Water in a Net, the winner of the 2007 USA Best Books award for "Religion: general," carries forward the concerns animating those earlier books. There is ample recognition here of the necessary service doubt can render. Feminist insights are richly mined...But as the book's argument builds, one finds oneself hungering for the "Yes" in our undeniably human efforts to describe the divine. Webb is not going to settle for a wholly apophatic theology, reaching rather for a positive alternative to the problematic pieties she so emphatically critiques (66). She celebrates the fact that "a new Christianity is evolving, uncovering the human Jesus so long buried under centuries of dogma" (206). There seems to be, after all, a deep anthropological basis for this religious quest (211, 227)...She presses herself to go further, to identify "mega-characteristics" (111) in a reformed way. Thus she will speak of "the Divine, the world and ourselves as 'good' in aesthetic rather than moral terms" (115), calling upon Thomas Aquinas, Alfred North Whitehead, Dag Hammarskjold and the Turkish poet Fazil for explication. Or she will have us employ "the Image of GOD as Communication (NOT Communicator, because that returns to an 'idol' like us that we create)" (76). More materially, she will speak of "Love as a unifying, reconciling Force within this universe" (120)." - Paul R. Sponheim, Word & World 28/3, Summer 2008
"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
Award-Winner in the Religion: General category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards.
"Val Webb isn't out to prove the existence of a god, but to point out imitations of the Divine nature from the literature on the world's religions. Thus her survey includes range of world beliefs, from Buddhism and Hindu mystics to early Mesopotamians and the Aboriginals of Australia. The result is a critical challenge to the thinking processes of traditional Christianity and a challenge to readers to broaden their view of what constitutes spiritual thinking. Spirituality collections will find it invaluable." -James A. Cox, The Midwest Book Review, February 2008
"Val Webb is a writer, teacher, artist, theologian and scientist who weaves knowledge and experience together as she encourages the reader to open themselves to a myriad of metaphors, symbols and images that reveal the divine across cultures, relgions and centuries." - Journey
"A lecturer in religion at universities in the US and Australia, Webb offers an absorbing book of metaphorical theology, one that follows the many and varied traces of the Divine in history. To this end, she explores the writings of Sufi, Buddhist, and Hindu mystics, the nature religions of the ancient Mesopotamians, the ethical monotheism of the ancient Israelites, the stress on the Creating Rainbow Spirit among the Aboriginal people, and theologies associated with traditional as well as progressive Christian traditions...Webb upholds process theism as the most fruitful, satisfying way to describe the Divine today. This astute book carries wide appeal." -Darren J.N. Middleton, Religious Studies Review, September 2008
"Like Catching Water in a Net, the winner of the 2007 USA Best Books award for "Religion: general," carries forward the concerns animating those earlier books. There is ample recognition here of the necessary service doubt can render. Feminist insights are richly mined...But as the book's argument builds, one finds oneself hungering for the "Yes" in our undeniably human efforts to describe the divine. Webb is not going to settle for a wholly apophatic theology, reaching rather for a positive alternative to the problematic pieties she so emphatically critiques (66). She celebrates the fact that "a new Christianity is evolving, uncovering the human Jesus so long buried under centuries of dogma" (206). There seems to be, after all, a deep anthropological basis for this religious quest (211, 227)...She presses herself to go further, to identify "mega-characteristics" (111) in a reformed way. Thus she will speak of "the Divine, the world and ourselves as 'good' in aesthetic rather than moral terms" (115), calling upon Thomas Aquinas, Alfred North Whitehead, Dag Hammarskjold and the Turkish poet Fazil for explication. Or she will have us employ "the Image of GOD as Communication (NOT Communicator, because that returns to an 'idol' like us that we create)" (76). More materially, she will speak of "Love as a unifying, reconciling Force within this universe" (120)." - Paul R. Sponheim, Word & World 28/3, Summer 2008
Notă biografică
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