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Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life

Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life

Michael Stevens
Role: Co-author

J. Matthew Bonzo
Role: Author

The volume Wendell Berry and the Cultivation of Life by J. Matthew Bonzo and Michael R. Stevens (AGI '92) represents the first critical account of the whole range of writing and thinking (fiction, poetry, essays) of one of America's most lucid minds, the Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry.  Bonzo and Stevens, using the metaphor of the patchwork quilt, show in Berry's disparate modes and genres the persistent themes of communal disease and communal healing, and point especially to the Christian themes of faith, hope, and love at the root of his ostensibly cantankerous and often tragic vision.  The final few chapters apply elements of Berry's constructive musings to such cultural entities as church, higher education, and civic life.  Subtitled A Reader's Guide, this book serves well as an introduction to the breadth of Berry's ideas and to the sweep of theological, philosophical, and practical connections he makes.