Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield (English) Paperback Book

Description: Wendell Berry and the Given Life by Ragan Sutterfield We drive to work on the stored energy of ten thousand years of sunlight. Our daily bread seems to generate miraculously from store shelves. And our communities can be connected with a billion ones and zeros over fiber optic cables. For us, the idea of being a creature can seem passé. Yet in this lonely world of mastery, in a time so dominated by human desire and design that it has been dubbed the "anthropocene," the human age, many of us feel that we are missing some essential truth about who we are. The glimpses of this truth come when we lose cell reception on a long hike in the forest and our eyes are lifted to the simple marvel of trees. We feel this truth when we take up a shovel and sense the satisfying heave of dirt as we plant a modest garden. We hear this truth when we tune out the traffic and listen to the song sparrows melody, eavesdropping on a beauty that serves no human economy. In all this we hear a whisper of the truth that we are creatures--and we long to live in this reality. But how can we, when we have moved so far from our life source in the soil? For the past 50 years, Wendell Berry has been helping seekers chart a return to the practice of being creatures. Through his essays, poetry and fiction, Berry has repeatedly drawn our attention to the ways in which our lives are gifts in a whole economy of gifts. Berry presents us with the sort of coherent vision for the lived moral and spiritual life that we need now. His work helps us remember our givenness and embrace our life as creatures. His insights flow from a life and practices, and so it is a vision that can be practiced and lived--it is a vision that is grounded in the art of being a creature. Wendell Berry and the Given Life articulates his vision for the creaturely life and the Christian understandings of humility and creation that underpin it. The audio edition of this book can be downloaded via Audible. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Ragan Sutterfield is the author of Cultivating Reality: How the Soil Might Save Us, and a memoir, This Is My Body. His work has also appeared in a variety of magazines including The Christian Century, The Oxford American, Mens Journal, Triathlete, Gourmet, Fast Company, and Books & Culture. He is an endurance athlete and long-time naturalist who loves records, film, and seeking the good life with his wife Emily and their daughters Lillian and Lucia. He has worked as a teacher, librarian and farmer, but he is most of all a reader and writer. His work also appears regularly in the Englewood Review of Books. More on Ragans work can be found at his website RaganSutterfield.com. Review "Sutterfields book is full of practical wisdom not just for those interested in Berry or agrarianism but for anyone interested in living a sane life. This is a compelling and transformative read." --William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University "This collection of essays offers a reliable map to Berrys thought and life, beautifully distilled into a dozen keystone convictions (no small accomplishment). Sutterfield curates a pleasing mix of Berrys prose, poetry, and fiction to illustrate the social vision, faith, and practice of this contemporary St. Benedict--perspectives essential to our survival and flourishing as a creaturely species." --Ched Myers, author, Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice "People of faith and goodwill are seeking ways to live lives of truth, beauty, and love in a society which seems to discard or disdain such things. Sutterfields unpacking of Wendell Berrys wisdom, insight, challenges, and faithfulness offers ways of doing that in these perilous times. This is an important book for the living of these days." --J. Brent Bill, Quaker minister, author, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality, and steward of Ploughshares Farm "Goodness and beauty, lament and hope, humility and resilience, soil and skin-- readers of Wendell Berry know how he celebrates treasures too many people treat as trash. Now Ragan Sutterfield has gathered a dozen central themes from Berrys work and offers them as a call to aliveness in this wonderful and endangered world." --Brian McClaren, author, The Great Spiritual Migration "This wide-ranging yet coherent introduction to Berrys work offers also a view of Christian life that engages the deepest threats to our humanity and our physical world, and at the same time provides concrete guidance for the patient practice of hope." --Ellen F. Davis, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, The Divinity School, Duke University "In Wendell Berry and the Given Life, Ragan Sutterfield has gotten to the spiritual core of Berrys work and elegantly introduced it to people of faith. This book is a beacon of hope in our bleak times, one that guides us not only deeper into Berrys work, but also toward a richer and more sustainable way of life." --C. Christopher Smith, founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books and coauthor of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Review Quote "Sutterfields book is full of practical wisdom not just for those interested in Berry or agrarianism but for anyone interested in living a sane life. This is a compelling and transformative read." -- William T. Cavanaugh , DePaul University "This collection of essays offers a reliable map to Berrys thought and life, beautifully distilled into a dozen keystone convictions (no small accomplishment). Sutterfield curates a pleasing mix of Berrys prose, poetry, and fiction to illustrate the social vision, faith, and practice of this contemporary St. Benedict--perspectives essential to our survival and flourishing as a creaturely species." -- Ched Myers , author, Watershed Discipleship: Reinhabiting Bioregional Faith and Practice "People of faith and goodwill are seeking ways to live lives of truth, beauty, and love in a society which seems to discard or disdain such things. Sutterfields unpacking of Wendell Berrys wisdom, insight, challenges, and faithfulness offers ways of doing that in these perilous times. This is an important book for the living of these days." -- J. Brent Bill, Quaker minister, author, Holy Silence: The Gift of Quaker Spirituality , and steward of Ploughshares Farm "Goodness and beauty, lament and hope, humility and resilience, soil and skin-- readers of Wendell Berry know how he celebrates treasures too many people treat as trash. Now Ragan Sutterfield has gathered a dozen central themes from Berrys work and offers them as a call to aliveness in this wonderful and endangered world." -- Brian McClaren , author, The Great Spiritual Migration "This wide-ranging yet coherent introduction to Berrys work offers also a view of Christian life that engages the deepest threats to our humanity and our physical world, and at the same time provides concrete guidance for the patient practice of hope." -- Ellen F. Davis , Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, The Divinity School, Duke University "In Wendell Berry and the Given Life, Ragan Sutterfield has gotten to the spiritual core of Berrys work and elegantly introduced it to people of faith. This book is a beacon of hope in our bleak times, one that guides us not only deeper into Berrys work, but also toward a richer and more sustainable way of life." -- C. Christopher Smith , founding editor of The Englewood Review of Books and coauthor of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus Details ISBN1632532530 Author Ragan Sutterfield Publisher Franciscan Media Language English Year 2020 ISBN-10 1632532530 ISBN-13 9781632532534 Format Paperback Publication Date 2020-03-04 Imprint Franciscan Media Pages 176 DEWEY 277.3082092 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:134856210;

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