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- Description
- 1 online resource (vi, 266 p.)
- Series Statement
- Culture of the land
- Uniform Title
- Wendell Berry and religion (Online)
- Culture of the land.
- Alternative Title
- Heaven's earthly life
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Contents
- Introduction: Placing God in the work of Wendell Berry / Joel James Shuman -- pt. 1: Good work -- What would a Christian university look like? : some tentative answers inspired by Wendell Berry / Stanley Hauerwas -- Mr. Berry goes to medical school : notes toward unspecializing a healing art / Brian Volck -- Of the good that has been possible in this world : lawyering in Port William / Richard P. Church -- Proper work : Wendell Berry and the practice of ministry / Kyle Childress -- pt. 2: Holy living -- The pill is like-- DDT? : an agrarian perspective on pharmaceutical birth control / Elizabeth Bahnson -- The salvation of the city : defiant gardens in the great northern feedlot / Fred Bahnson -- "And the land I will remember" : reading the Bible through agrarian eyes / Ellen F. Davis -- Landscapes of flesh : on finding more faithful metaphors for the body and its goods / Joel James Shuman -- The dark night of the soil : an agrarian approach to mystical life / Norman Wirzba -- pt. 3: Imagination -- "The membership includes the dead" : Wendell Berry's Port William membership as communio sanctorum / D. Brent Laytham -- Embedded hopefulness : Wendell Berry and Saint Thomas Aquinas on Christian hope / Philip A. Muntzel -- Alien landscapes : Christianity and inevitable violence / Scott Williams -- Let the place judge : healing the division between theology and practice / L. Roger Owens -- pt. 4: Moving forward -- Democracy, America, and the church : inviting Wendell Berry into the discussion / Charles R. Pinches.
- LCCN
- 2009018235
- OCLC
- ssj0000344403
- Title
Wendell Berry and religion [electronic resource] : heaven's earthly life / edited by Joel James Shuman and L. Roger Owens.
- Imprint
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2009.
- Series
Culture of the land
Culture of the land.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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Shuman, Joel James.
Owens, L. Roger, 1975-