This article explores the theological thinking of writer-farmer-thinker Wendell Berry and aligns his fiction with the criticism of institutional religion revealed in his essays. With an ecologist’s sense of interdependence and interconnectedness, Berry’s criticism is based on what can be described as a theology of membership. This theology of membership recognizes all creation as gift from God, with its goodness evidence of God’s love. Such love imposes on us an order and obligation of love and gratitude, both modeling and inviting us to respond with loving care for God’s world and each other. A theology of membership is placed and practiced, requiring responsibility and action in this world even as we appreciate its pleasures and joys.

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温德尔·贝瑞小说中的神学声音

本文探讨作家-农民-思想家温德尔·贝里的神学思想，并将其小说与他的论文中揭示的对制度性宗教的批评相结合。凭借生态学家的相互依存和相互联系的感觉，贝瑞的批评基于可被称为会员资格的神学。这种隶属神学承认一切创造都是上帝的恩赐，并带有上帝爱的善良证据。这种爱向我们施加了爱与感激的秩序和义务，既塑造又邀请我们以对上帝的世界和彼此的爱心关怀作出回应。建立和实践会员制神学，即使我们欣赏它的乐趣和喜悦，也需要在这个世界上承担责任和采取行动。