This article is a chapter in christian wimans forthcoming book my bright abyss. Stories and techniques meant to awaken our consciousness, leading to a deeper connection with christ. Meditation of a modern believer, wiman writes that human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to god but gods means of manifesting himself to us. My bright abyss reveals what it can mean to experience st. Meditation of a modern believer, wiman writes that as he set out to answer the question of what he believes, he came to realize that the real questionthe real difficultyis how, not what.
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