Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community (Modern Spiritual Masters) - Softcover

Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1626980950 ISBN 13: 9781626980952

Publisher: Orbis Books, 2014

Synopsis

Thomas Berry (1914-2009), a Passionist priest, was a “geologian,” historian of religion, philosopher, and the single most important Catholic voice on the link between faith, reverence for all life, and the environmental crisis. Particularly well-known for his work in popularizing the “universe story” and exploring the religious implications of the new cosmology, Berry pointed the way to a spirituality attuned to our place in the natural world, and an ethic of responsibility and care for the earth. This work, timed to mark the centenary of his birth, will offer the best guide to one of the true prophets and spiritual masters of our time.

About this title

About the Author:

Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim were students of Thomas Berry and have devoted themselves to his legacy. Co-directors of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale, they are the editors of Berry’s The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth.

Review:

"The essential collection of Thomas Berry. Introduced with an elegant biography written by his extraordinary students, there is no better way into this genre-defying figure." --Willis Jenkins, The University of Virginia

"Thomas Berry offers big picture thinking, big-hearted love, and big screen imagination, both scientific and religious about how the cosmos can thrive. New readers and longtime students of Berry alike will find this volume a portable summary of his best work." --Mary E. Hunt

"This important selection of Berry's writings invites us to consider our contributions to a functional cosmology that is capable of nurturing, revising, and sustaining our spiritual intuitions and our beloved earth community." --Barbara A. Homes, President, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities

"Nowhere else do we have the full scope of Thomas Berry's writing. Consequently nowhere else do we have the full range of his prophetic insight. Put this book in your library and absorb it, page by page and piece by piece." --Larry Rasmussen, Union Theological Seminary

About this edition

• Publisher: Orbis Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1626980950
• ISBN 13: 9781626980952
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224