Like Catching Water in a Net Human Attempts to Describe the Divine [Hardcover]

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.

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?