‘As darkness falls, the person who is praying will lose sight of God as well as of his or her own confidence in God’s will to be close. Modern therapists call this an existential crisis. St John of the Cross calls it “the Dark Night.” And there, precisely in that darkness, we might suddenly perceive God’s presence.’ In ‘Walking in Darkness,’ Johan Tyrberg addresses the issue of what it means to live as a human being in a relationship with God, and the fact that the way to closeness to God often leads through periods of experienced darkness. The Rt Revd Johan Tyrberg is the Bishop of the Diocese Lund in the Lutheran Church of Sweden since 2014.
