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Wiman, Christian, 1966-
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Religion and poetry.
Christianity and literature.
American essays -- 21st century.
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Wiman, Christian, 1966-
Religion and poetry.
Christianity and literature.
American essays -- 21st century.
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My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer / Christian Wiman.
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Wiman, Christian, 1966-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Call #:
814.6 W757m
Subjects
Religion
and
poetry
.
Christianity and literature.
American essays -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780374216788 (hc.)
0374216789 (hc.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Description:
x, 182 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents:
My bright abyss -- Sorrow's flower -- Tender interior -- God's truth is life -- O thou mastering light -- Dear oblivion -- Hive of nerves -- God is not beyond -- Varieties of quiet -- Mortify our wolves -- Million little oblivions.
Summary:
"Composed in the difficult years since [having written a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death] and completed in the wake of a bone marrow transplant, [this book] is a ... meditation on what a viable contemporary faith--responsive not only to modern thought and science but also to religious tradition--might feel like"--Dust jacket flap.
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