The sacred universe
Subtitle: earth, spirituality, and religion in the twenty-first century
By: Thomas Berry ; edited and with a foreword by Mary Evelyn Tucker.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780231149525; 9780231520645
Subjects: Spirituality; Religion; Religions; Cosmology; Evolution; Philosophical anthropology
Description: A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, the author possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These erudite and keenly sympathetic essays represent his best work, covering such issues as human beings' modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, the author resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.         ) and index.