Re-Membering Home: Wendell Berry's Response to the Gnostic Abstraction of Place

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dc.contributor.advisorMoore, Scott Hunter.
dc.contributor.authorLunsford, Sarah
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity Scholars.en_US
dc.contributor.schoolsHonors College.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-21T16:36:17Z
dc.date.available2018-05-21T16:36:17Z
dc.date.copyright2018
dc.date.issued2018-05-21
dc.description.abstractThe modern world is by and large in a cultural crisis of displacement. This is allowed for by gnostic tendencies that place the entire vale of home in the abstract qualities of it and disregard the worth of particular places. Wendell Berry’s fiction shows a counter to this. Grounded in firmly fixed communities running generations deep, his stories show how the cultivation of place breeds affection and attachment to it in the midst of a cultural current that offers no explanation of or defense for homes. The physicality of place matters as it interacts and leads upward to spiritual realities. This is seen in the love of Hannah Coulter, the faith of Jayber Crow, and the hope of Andy Catlett, given to their place and given to them through their place. In these ways places, and especially homes, have sacramental value with the ability to lift one upward to the ultimate and final Home.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2104/10260
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
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dc.titleRe-Membering Home: Wendell Berry's Response to the Gnostic Abstraction of Placeen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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