Christian Wiman | The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art (1/23/2024)

Please join us for the 2023-24 Aesthetics Lecture, "The Art of Faith, the Faith of Art," to be presented by Christian Wiman on Tuesday, January 23 at 7:30 pm in Barrows Auditorium. In this lecture, Wiman explores the relation between art and faith, addressing such questions as the relation between poetry and prayer, reading secular literature as a person of faith, and what is means to read and live "poetically."
Christian Wiman | EnglishChristian Wiman is the author, editor, or translator of more than ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and most recently Zero at the Bone: Fifty Entries Against Despair, released in December 2023. Of his work as a whole, Marilynne Robinson writes, “His poetry and scholarship have a purifying urgency that is rare in this world. 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.” Mr. Wiman has been a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford and a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern, and for three years he served as Visiting Scholar at Lynchburg College in Virginia. He is currently the Clement-Muehl Professor of Communication Arts at Yale Divinity School. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow and holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from North Central College. His particular interests include modern poetry, the language of faith, “accidental” theology (that is, theology conducted by unexpected means), and what it means to be a Christian intellectual in a secular culture.
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