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

by Val Webb

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 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.

Genres: Religion

272 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 2007

Reviews

[Val Webb · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Like Catching Water in a Net: Human Attempts to Describe the Divine" has been named the winner in the "religion: general" category of the USA Best Books 2007 Awards.

[Christine Wales · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very thought provoking - need to read this again