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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/795174378 Title: My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer Author: Christian Wiman Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013. ISBN/ISSN: 9780374216788 0374216789 9780374534370 0374534373 OCLC:795174378

  
  

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My bright abyss : meditation of a modern believer

Author:	Christian Wiman
Publisher:	New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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. Seven years ago, Wiman, a well-known poet and the editor of Poetry magazine, wrote a now-famous essay about having faith in the face of death. Now he presents 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. How do we answer this "burn of being"? Wiman asks. What might it mean for our lives-- and for our deaths-- if we acknowledge the "insistent, persistent ghost" that some of us call God?  Read more...
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Subjects	Religion and poetry. Christianity and literature. Lyrik View all subjects
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