In a 1992 lecture delivered at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky Wendell Berry argued that the Bible is a book best read outdoors, a 'hypaethral book, ' such as Thoreau talked about-a book open to the sky. Like most who read the Bible, I had read it outdoors on some occasions. Camps and retreat settings had provided opportunities to sit under a tree or even on a mountaintop and read Scripture. But until I heard Berry's words, I never saw the Bible as an "outdoor book," almost intended for such settings. I happened to have read it under the sky on occasion, but...
In a 1992 lecture delivered at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky Wendell Berry argued that the Bible is a book best re...