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Stepping Out with the Sacred Dr Val Webb

Stepping Out with the Sacred By Dr Val Webb

Stepping Out with the Sacred by Dr Val Webb


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Summary

Discusses how humans have described the Divine. This book looks at how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through ritual, art, sacred places, language and song.

Stepping Out with the Sacred Summary

Stepping Out with the Sacred: Human Attempts to Engage the Divine by Dr Val Webb

This is a masterful and engaging account of how humans through centuries and cultures have engaged and experienced the divine. Our doctor is Muslim, our lawyer Jewish our best friend Buddhist, a plurality multiplied by global travel and politics. In "Like Catching Water in a Net", Webb discussed how humans have described the Divine. This companion book looks at how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through ritual, art, sacred places, language and song. Here, Webb includes her own experiences, both personal and observed from travel in fifty countries, as well as centuries of theology, literature and travel writing. She meanders along winding trails, talk over the fence and drink wine with a stranger, literally and figuratively. To engage the larger-than-description Sacred, we need all the stories we can find, even if only to remind us the distance still to go and the limitless (sometimes unsuccessful) journey. As a teacher of world religions and art, and an artist, this will not be a string of anecdotes, but a woven together, reader-friendly, vividly painted, theologically reflective whole.

Stepping Out with the Sacred Reviews

"'Val Webb is one of the most exciting Christian voices in the 21st Century.'- Bishop John Shelby Spong."

About Dr Val Webb

Val Webb is a university lecturer in religion, with a graduate degree in science and a Ph.D. in theology. She is the author of 7 books, most recently, Florence Nightingale: The Making of a Radical Theologian. Her book John's Message: Good News for the New Millennium was commissioned by the World Methodist Council. Dividing her time between the U.S. and Australia, she teaches every year at Augsburg College in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and Whitley College in Melbourne.

Table of Contents

Introduction; Sacred Places; Sacred People/Communities; Sacred Buildings; Sacred Worship; Sacred Food; Sacred Events; Sacred Journeys; Sacred Revelations; Sacred Conflict; Salvation; After-life; Inter-religious Dialogue; Epilogue.

Additional information

GOR004961608
9781441196422
1441196420
Stepping Out with the Sacred: Human Attempts to Engage the Divine by Dr Val Webb
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Continuum Publishing Corporation
2010-09-30
304
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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