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May 4, 2021 | The poetry of Traherne, Vaughan, and Wordsworth examine a certain correlation between soul and soil. Beneath their pastoralism is a profound sense of loss that pitches the relation of land and longing into a minor key. In a conversation with Michael Scott, Graham Ward will explore the theology of this loss, not as a loss of innocence so much as a loss of intimacy. Each writes of a lost knowledge: the exchange of acknowledgements between the divine, the human, the animal, the bird, and the land which all of them occupy. They evoke a relational intimacy at the origins of being human that opens a human understanding of the world in which all have been placed. The intimacy arises from within a dense matrix of interactive communication between all things created, as well as the divine providence that encompasses and generates it. The loss of this intimacy involves a mournful disengagement from a complex ecology, a disengagement we are still living with and that still haunts so much environmentalism today.