TY - BOOK AU - Owens,L.Roger AU - Shuman,Joel James TI - Wendell Berry and religion: heaven's earthly life T2 - Culture of the land SN - 0813125553 (hardcover : alk. paper) PY - 2009/// CY - Lexington, Ky. PB - University Press of Kentucky KW - Berry, Wendell, KW - Christianity N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -