Water over the bridge: exploring the connections in W Berry's vision of community

Daniel K Chinn

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Water over the bridge: exploring the connections in W Berry's vision of community

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Daniel K Chinn. Water Over the Bridge: Exploring the Connections In W Berry's Vision of Community. Covenant Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c25763c-eda0-4ae6-a33a-20dbc166b52b.

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D. K. Chinn. Water over the bridge: exploring the connections in W Berry's vision of community. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c25763c-eda0-4ae6-a33a-20dbc166b52b

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Daniel K Chinn. Water Over the Bridge: Exploring the Connections In W Berry's Vision of Community. Covenant Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/7c25763c-eda0-4ae6-a33a-20dbc166b52b.

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Daniel K Chinn

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Abstract

In Wendell Berry's novel A place on Earth, his fictitious character, Ernest Finley, is hired to rebuild a footbridge destroyed by flood waters. As Ernest restores the bridge he muses taht a bridge is not perhaps the first thing a man would build, but it surely is the first thing a neighborhood would build. This musing reflects Berry's understanding that in order for a community to be healthy, connections must be enacted between all members of a membership: human, non-human, and the place itself. The three relational aspects that connect the members of community are mutuality, responsibility, and affection. In an ever individualized culture, where those in a place are isolated from each other, College of Ozarks can benefit from Berry as he informs its practiced mission by helping their students learn the need to build bridges consisting of mutuality, responsibility, and affection, while teaching them the ethic of good work.

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