Bryan V. Wallis

BRYAN V. WALLIS {[email protected]} is a Ph.D. student in English with emphases in critical theory and classical Greek language and literature at the University of California, Davis. He previously received a B.A. in English and an M.A. in environmental humanities, both from the University of Utah. He has participated in environmental education and sustainable rural development projects with Insituto Terra in Brazil and is interested in the intersections of literature, the environment, and religion.

Flexibility in the Ecology of Ideas: Revelatory Religion and the Environment

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 2

Ideas, like everything in the universe, do not exist in isolation. Ideas bear traces of the past, are in a state of continual evolution in the present, and are intertwined in dialectical relationships with other ideas and the world in which they are immanent. Even ideas considered revelatory, having issued from a source beyond the din of the mundane, are tangled in relationships between the revelator, the receiver, the world, and the medium (linguistic or otherwise) by which messages are transmitted.