Wildness: Lydia Willsky-Ciollo in conversation with Richard Higgins
In Wildness: Henry David Thoreau and the Making of an American Theology, Lydia Willsky-Ciollo reintroduces Henry David Thoreau as a thinker whose spiritual vision emerged through lived experience of the natural world. From his years after college through his time at Walden Pond, Thoreau developed a theology rooted not in doctrine but in wildness itself—shaped by walking, observing, and his daily work as a surveyor.
In conversation with Richard Higgins, Willsky-Ciollo explores how Thoreau’s theology reflects enduring American tensions between wilderness and civilization, progress and tradition, individual and society. At the heart of this discussion is Thoreau’s invitation to readers: theology is an active, unfinished practice, and the work of interpreting the sacred in the wild belongs to us all.
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