Wildness

Acknowledgments

List of Illustrations

Introduction: A Theology of Muskrats and Skunk Cabbage, and of Men

Part I: Roots

1. "I am a New-Englander": The World that Made Henry David Thoreau

2. "I pray for such inward experience": The Work of the Mind or, the Education of Henry David Thoreau

Part II: Fruits

3. "Does Wisdom Work in a tread-mill?": Thoreau's Surveying Work and Theological Vocation

4. "May we not see God?": Henry David Thoreau's Doctrine of Spiritual Senses

5. "Naturalized, but on the Soil of the Earth": Thoreau, American Indians, and Salvation

6. "Talk of heaven! Ye disgrace earth": On Thoreau's Theology of Time, Death, and the Afterlife

Part III: Communion Feast

7. "My New Testament": Wild Fruits as Scripture for a Wild Congregation

Prologue: A task, unbroken

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