What Are We Here For?
Gardening and the Human Vocation
a lecture given by Carmody Grey
on 30th September 2026
The text of Carmody’s talk is provided at the link below folllowed by Carmody’s five key references.
Alexander Schmemann - For the Life of the World (the theological foundation; a remarkable work, strangely overlooked outside Orthodox circles)
Ellen Davis - Scripture, Culture and Agriculture (the Hebrew scholarship)
Norman Wirzba - Making Peace with the Land: God's Call to Reconcile with All Creation (reflections on the destiny of creation and its consequences for practice)
Norman Wirzba - The Agrarian Spirit (an inquiry into Christian agrarianism)
David Abram - The Spell of the Sensuous (an extraordinary reflection on our connectedness with other species; a really fabulous book, but not Christian theology)