@FrontPorchRepub Your placing of Berry in this rare company catches something I sense, too: a startling realness, where ontic, moral, spiritual, linguistic and lived integrity are of a piece. The originality belongs not simply to his voice, but to a wholeness that, for me, is ultimately Christic.
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Berry’s voice really is unclassifiable in the way that W.H. Auden said Kierkegaard’s is: Like Pascal, Nietzsche, and Simone Weil, Kierkegaard is one of those writers whom it is very difficult to estimate justly. When one reads them for the first time, one is bowled over by their originality (they speak in a voice one has never heard before) and by the sharpness of their insights (they say things which no one before them has said, and which, henceforward, no reader will ever forget).
@NWirzba @ChristianCent 1/6 I sense Berry’s extraordinary reach lies in speaking something like Bonhoeffer’s “new language.” Christian in its deep grammar, yet rarely requiring Christianity for entry, its Christic ground becomes common ground by locating the universal within, not above, the particular.
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On restoring the correspondence between God and word? In one of his last letters from prison, before the Nazis murdered him, Bonhoeffer wrote, “The day will come when men will once more be called so to utter the word of God that the world will be changed and renewed by it...” end/ “... It will be a new language, perhaps quite non-religious, but liberating and redeeming as was Jesus’ language; it will shock people and yet overcome them by its power.” #agrariansharingnetwork https:// youtu.be/5sOSkYJLAD4