My bright abyss: meditation of a modern believer (1st ed.)

Seven years ago, Christian Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death.

My Bright Abyss, composed in the difficult years since and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, is a moving meditation on what a viable contemporary faith-responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition-might look like.Joyful, sorrowful, and beautifully written, My Bright Abyss is destined to become a spiritual classic, useful not only to believers but to anyone whose experience of life and art seems at times to overbrim its boundaries.

How do we answer this "e;burn of being"e;? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-and for our deaths-if we acknowledge the "e;insistent, persistent ghost"e; that some of us call God?

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