Ebook {Epub PDF} My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer by Christian Wiman

My Bright Abyss is a collection of essays by poet Christian Wiman. As the subtitle states, the essays are meditations on what it means to be a person of faith in today's world, what faith even is (or is not). Wiman spends a great deal of space on how faith consists often of doubt and struggle/5.  · Overview. Eight 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 Brand: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Christian Wiman’s My Bright Abyss stands in a long line of spiritual writ-ings that mix memoir with theology with a kind of deep spiritual insight. I would place him alongside some of the recent writers in that line, like Kathleen Norris or Henri Nouwen. I am confident enough to say that I think My Bright Abyss will become a classic in that line, evenAuthor: Travis Scholl.

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Christian Wiman is an exquisite wordsmith and his beautiful prose is on full display in his memoir "My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer." Wiman, who was diagnosed with a rare form of cancer, offers his reflections on God, life, death, doubt, belief, art, and his own return to faith. Preview — My Bright Abyss by Christian Wiman. My Bright Abyss Quotes Showing of “What you must realize, what you must even come to praise, is the fact that there is no right way that is going to become apparent to you once and for all. The most blinding illumination that strikes and perhaps radically changes your life will be so. Beyond informing us that he received his dire news in a “curt voice mail message,” Christian Wiman says very little about his experience of the medical world. “My Bright Abyss” reveals.