Through a Glass Darkly  

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Through A Glass Darkly is an abbreviated form of a much-quoted phrase from 1 Corinthians 13 in the Christian New Testament, "For now we see through a glass, darkly".

It has been used as the title for various works, including:

• Through a Glass Darkly (film), or Såsom i en spegel, 1961 Ingmar Bergman film
• Through A Glass Darkly (album), 1978 album by Peter Howell
• Through A Glass, Darkly, or I et speil, i en gåte, a 1993 novel by Norwegian author and philosopher Jostein Gaarder
• "Through a Glass Darkly", episode of the TV series Andromeda
• "Through a Glass Darkly", episode of the TV series Millennium
• "Through a Glass, Darkly" (Highlander), episode of the TV series Highlander
• Through a Glass Darkly, a 2003 dark chamber symphony by Justin Lassen
• Through a Glass Darkly, a 2006 mystery by Donna Leon
• Through a Glass Darkly, a 1950 mystery by Helen McCloy
• Through a Glass Darkly: The U.S. Holocaust In Central America, a book about the civil war in Guatemala through the eyes of a Maryknoll priest
• "Through a Glass, Darkly",[1] a poem by General George Patton
• Through a Glass, Darkly, a report commissioned in 1987 by the British Methodist Church regarding the Church's attitude to alcohol

See also

• Plato's Allegory of the cave
• In a Glass Darkly, collection of short stories by Sheridan Le Fanu
• A Scanner Darkly, novel by Philip K. Dick
  • A Scanner Darkly (film), 2006 adaptation of the same
• Through a Glass, Clearly, Isaac Asimov novel
• "In A Glass, Darkly", a tale of murder and the supernatural by Agatha Christie
• "Through an Orb Darkly", issue #1 of the 1974 Doctor Strange Marvel Comics series
• "Through a Nightmare, Darkly", mission in the computer game The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion
• "In a Mirror, Darkly", episode of Star Trek Enterprise
• Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. 2), Rolling Stones compilation album
• "Through the Glass Darkly", a song by Annie Lennox on her fourth solo album, Songs of Mass Destruction (2007)
• "Through A Lens Darkly", episode #28 (production code #301) of the animated series Daria
• The Passion of Darkly Noon (1995 film) in which the title character was named by his religious parents sticking a pin in a random verse of the Bible
• "America, Seen through Photographs, Darkly", the second section of On Photography by Susan Sontag