An exploration of Berry’s wisdom through representative reading in his fiction, poetry and essays. The course engages key Berrian themes and explores the compatibility and contribution of Berry’s vision to contemporary Christian life and thought. Three hours credit.
Textbooks:
- Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry, ed. Norman Wirzba (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2003). Read all.
- Wendell Berry, The Way of Ignorance and Other Essays (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2005). Read preface through page 150.
- Wendell Berry, That Distant Land: The Collected Stories (Shoemaker and Hoard, 2004). Omit 124-44, 164-95, 210-49. Read all the rest.
- Wendell Berry, A Timbered Choir: The Sabbath Poems 1979-97 (Counterpoint, 1998). Read all.
This syllabus pertains to when the course was offered in 2008