"In another day and age, this book would be called a revelation, a mysticism, a holy text. This masterwork of doubt and faith, literature and theology, will affect nonbelievers and spiritual seekers alike." - Mary Karr, author of Lit and The Liar's Club Like Merton, he captures the smugness that can poison some atheists as it does some believers. Like Lewis, he's surprised by the joy of falling in love. "Christian Wiman's My Bright Abyss creates in the reader the keen, poetic attention of a man with a cancer diagnosis trying to remain fully present in his life. "Every generation needs someone to write about faith as lucidly as Christian Wiman does in this 'meditation of a modern believer.'" - The Wall Street Journal This puts him at the very source of theology, and enables him to say new things in timeless language, so that the reader's surprise and assent are one and the same." - Marilynne Robinson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gilead " poetry and his scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world.
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