I think of translations as passing some scholarly smell test: you can read the words of the translation and be reasonably sure of what the words are in the original.
Art is so often better at theology than theology is. - Christian Wiman
Art is so often better at theology than theology is.
- Christian Wiman
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence. - Christian Wiman
To be truly alive is to feel one's ultimate existence within one's daily existence.
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany. - Christian Wiman
Nature poets can't walk across the backyard without tripping over an epiphany.
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast tho… - Christian Wiman
I am a Christian because of that moment on the cross when Jesus, drinking the very dregs of human bitterness, cries out, My God, my God, why hast tho…
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call th… - Christian Wiman
It is easy enough to write and talk about God while remaining comfortable within the contemporary intellectual climate. Even people who would call th…
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise.… - Christian Wiman
One of the qualities essential to being good at reading poetry is also one of the qualities essential to being good at life: a capacity for surprise.…
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us. - Christian Wiman
Human imagination is not simply our means of reaching out to God but God's means of manifesting himself to us.
It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities. - Christian Wiman
It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.
I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try … - Christian Wiman
I don’t believe in “laying to rest” the past. There are wounds we won’t get over. There are things that happen to us that, no matter how hard we try …
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