Glimmerings: Letters on Faith Between a Poet and a Theologian
About this ebook
Whether you’re searching for something to believe in or no longer feel at home in your faith tradition of origin, the spiritual search can be deeply lonely.?
Glimmerings brings the high-voltage tensions of faith as felt by many into the realm of relationship, where our hope might be bolstered in community with kindred minds. This vivid interpersonal offering brings together one of the world’s leading Christian theologians, Miroslav Volf, with one of the most celebrated voices in modern American poetry, Christian Wiman, in this private-now-public exchange of letters on these very pressing tensions of our time.
As close friends and Yale colleagues, their letters reveal visions of faith that are sometimes sharply divergent, yet always honest, modeling warmth, humor, disagreement and apology along the way. As the authors contend, certainty can never be ours. But perhaps God shows himself in “glimmerings,” and as we companion each other on the search, we can take heart in being seen for who we are and held by a great and mysterious love.
Candid, consoling, and ever-absorbing, Wiman and Volf’s exchange creates a world where questions are dignified by a fair hearing, where the spiritual search in all its complexities is honored, where glimmerings might be found.
About the author
Miroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and the founding director of the Yale Center for Faith & Culture. His books include Exclusion & Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation, winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award in Religion.
Christian Wiman was born and raised in West Texas. He is the editor of Poetry and the author of three collections of poems, Every Riven Thing, Hard Night, and The Long Home, and one collection of prose, Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet.
