Wendell Berry and religion
Subtitle: heaven's earthly life
By: edited by Joel James Shuman and L. Roger Owens.
Contributors: Shuman, Joel James.; Owens, L. Roger, 1975-
Series: Culture of the land
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Lexington, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780813125558
Subjects: Berry, Wendell, -- 1934-; Christianity
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Placing God in the work of Wendell Berry / Joel James Shuman; title: Part I: Good work; title: What would a Christian university look like? : some tentative answers inspired by Wendell Berry / Stanley Hauerwas; title: Mr. Berry goes to medical school : notes toward unspecializing a healing art / Brian Volck; title: Of the good that has been possible in this world : lawyering in Port William / Richard P. Church; title: Proper work : Wendell Berry and the practice of ministry / Kyle Childress; title: Part II: Holy living; title: The pill is like ... DDT : an agrarian perspective on pharmaceutical birth control / Elizabeth Bahnson; title: The salvation of the city : defiant gardens in the great northern feedlot / Fred Bahnson; title: And the land I will remember : reading the Bible through agrarian eyes / Ellen F. Davis; title: Landscapes of flesh : on finding more faithful metaphors for the body and its goods / Joel James Shuman; title: The dark night of the soil : an agrarian approach to mystical life / Norman Wirzba; title: Part III: Imagination; title: The membership includes the dead : Wendell Berry's membership as communio sanctorum / D. Brent Laytham; title: Embedded hopefulness : Wendell Berry and Saint Thomas Aquinas on Christian hope / Philip A. Muntzel; title: Alien landscapes : Christianity and inevitable violence / Scott Williams; title: Let the place judge : healing the division between theology and practice / L. Roger Owens; title: Part IV: Moving forward; title: Democracy, America, and the church : inviting Wendell Berry into the discussion / Charles R. Pinches.