AUSTRALIAN AUTHOR

In this book Val Webb doesn't set out to prove the existence of God or a 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 Webb's home country, Australia.

Raised in the Christian tradition, she poses a critical challenge to the ways in which traditional Christianity has straitjacketed our Western notions of the Divine, here aligning herself with modern mystics like William James, Leo Tolstoy, and Florence Nightingale. In the final chapter, she shows how the process theology of Alfred North Whitehead and Charles Hartshorne, and their contemporary followers, is quite compatible with so many of the traditional notions about God surveyed in the book.

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