Thomas Berry

and the Great Work

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Publications

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Bibliography of Thomas Berry's Work
“The New Story”

“The New Story”

By Thomas Berry

First published in Teilhard Studies no. 1 (winter 1978)

Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours

Thomas Berry: A Book of Hours

Edited by Kathleen Deignan
Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2025

The Place of Our Belonging: A Work for Children and Educators Mentored by Thomas Berry

The Place of Our Belonging: A Work for Children and Educators Mentored by Thomas Berry

Edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt
The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, 2023

Thomas Berry: A Biography

Thomas Berry: A Biography

By Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim, and Andrew Angyal

New York City, NY: Columbia University Press, 2019

Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe

Living Cosmology: Christian Responses to Journey of the Universe

Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2016

The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics

The Cosmic Common Good: Religious Grounds for Ecological Ethics

By Daniel P. Scheid

Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2016

Thomas Berry in Italy: Reflections on Spirituality & Sustainability

Thomas Berry in Italy: Reflections on Spirituality & Sustainability

Edited by Elisabeth M Ferrero

Washington, DC: Pacem in Terris Press, 2016

The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community

The Intellectual Journey of Thomas Berry: Imagining the Earth Community

Edited by Heather Eaton

Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015

Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment

Earth Jurisprudence: Private Property and the Environment

By Peter D. Burdon

Abingdon, U.K.: Routledge, 2015

Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry

Recovering a Sense of the Sacred: Conversations with Thomas Berry

By Carolyn Toben

Whitsett, NC: Timberlake Earth Sanctuary Press, 2012

Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community

Thomas Berry: Selected Writings on the Earth Community

Edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2014

The Dream of the Earth

The Dream of the Earth

By Thomas Berry

San Francisco: Sierra Club, 1988; reprint Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015

The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future

The Great Work: Our Way Into the Future

By Thomas Berry

New York: Harmony/Bell Tower, 1999

Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community

Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community

By Thomas Berry, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker

San Francisco: Sierra Club, and Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006; reprint Berkeley: Counterpoint, 2015

The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century

The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century

By Thomas Berry, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker

New York: Columbia University Press, 2009

The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth

The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth

By Thomas Berry, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim

Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009

The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos

The Universe Story: From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era–A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos

By Brian Swimme and Thomas Berry

San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992

Buddhism

Buddhism

By Thomas Berry

New York: Columbia University Press, 1996

Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism

Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism

By Thomas Berry

New York: Columbia University Press, 1996

Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth

Befriending the Earth: A Theology of Reconciliation Between Humans and the Earth

By Thomas Berry with Thomas Clarke

Mystic, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1991

The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century

“The Spirituality of the Earth”

By Thomas Berry
Published in The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century, 2009

“The Cosmology of Peace”

“The Cosmology of Peace”

By Thomas Berry
Published in The Dream of the Earth, 1988.

Our Way into the Future: A Communion of Subjects

Our Way into the Future: A Communion of Subjects

By Thomas Berry
Published in Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as a Sacred Community, 2006

“The University”

“The University”

By Thomas Berry

Published in The Great Work, 1993.

“The University”

“The Meadow Across the Creek”

By Thomas Berry

Published in The Great Work, 1993.

Special Issue on The Great Work

Special Issue on The Great Work

Special Issue of Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, edited by Heather Eaton, 2001

Revisioning the Past

Revisioning the Past

By Thomas Berry

The Tarrytown Letter, November 1985.

Bioregionalism

Bioregionalism

By Thomas Berry

The Tarrytown Letter, September 1984.

Contemplation and World Order

Contemplation and World Order

By Thomas Berry

1978

“Catching the Power of the Wind“

“Catching the Power of the Wind“

By Thomas Berry

A Statement of the Occasion of the Thirtieth Anniversary of the United Nations at the Spiritual Summit Conference, 1975

Religious Studies and the Global Community of Man

Religious Studies and the Global Community of Man

By Thomas Berry
Journal of Dharma (July 1975)

Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism

Thomas Berry, Dreamer of the Earth: The Spiritual Ecology of the Father of Environmentalism

Edited by Ervin Laszlo and Allan Combs

Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011

A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan

A Theology for the Earth: The Contributions of Thomas Berry and Bernard Lonergan

By Anne Marie Dalton

Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999

Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology

Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology

Anne ​Lonergan and Caroline Richard, Editors.

Mystic Court, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987

Reflections by Brian Edward Brown

Reflections by Brian Edward Brown

Thomas Berry Forum for Ecological Dialogue: Contemplative Ecology Circle

Thomas Berry Manchester Newsletters

Thomas Berry Manchester Newsletters

By Kelvin Ravenscroft

Learning from Thomas Berry

Learning from Thomas Berry

By Peter Reason. Learning how Land Speaks. November 17, 2024.

25th Anniversary Celebration of Awe and Wonder

25th Anniversary Celebration of Awe and Wonder

Sisters of the Earth Community. Green Mountain Monastery/Thomas Berry Sanctuary. June 1, 2024.

Don’t forget the spiritual side of Earth Day

Don’t forget the spiritual side of Earth Day

By Daniel P. Horan
National Catholic Reporter. April 20, 2023.

A New Story For The Earth

A New Story For The Earth

The Gaia Foundation. November 9, 2022.

The Architecture of Eco-Theology: Towards a New Typology for Christian Sacred Space 

The Architecture of Eco-Theology: Towards a New Typology for Christian Sacred Space 

By Roberto Chiotti
Religions 2022, 13(1), 29

Artist paints icons of endangered species to ‘foster ecological conversion’

Artist paints icons of endangered species to ‘foster ecological conversion’

By Barbara Fraser

EarthBeat. May 21, 2021.

Evolutionary living through mutual mentoring

Evolutionary living through mutual mentoring

By Judith Best

Global Sisters Report. April 19, 2021.

10 years later, ‘Journey of the Universe’ film more relevant, urgent than ever

10 years later, ‘Journey of the Universe’ film more relevant, urgent than ever

By Brian Roewe

EarthBeat. April 9, 2021.

Renamed Passionist retreat house reflects Berry’s call to heal the Earth

Renamed Passionist retreat house reflects Berry’s call to heal the Earth

By Peter Feuerherd

EarthBeat. April 2, 2021.

Nature in our lives, in the cathedral, in the house of human rights

Nature in our lives, in the cathedral, in the house of human rights

By Magda Bennásar

Global Sisters Report. January 7, 2021.

Instead of a ‘return to normal,’ let’s pursue a profound transformation

Instead of a ‘return to normal,’ let’s pursue a profound transformation

By Elise D. García

EarthBeat. May 29, 2020.

Integral Ecology: Telling the Universe Story based on the New Cosmology

Integral Ecology: Telling the Universe Story based on the New Cosmology

By Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto

Minda News. September 5, 2020.

It’s Time to Reinvent the Human if we hope to save our planetary home

It’s Time to Reinvent the Human if we hope to save our planetary home

By Valerie Andrews

Reinventing Home. 
Summer 2020.

How a ‘green’ church in Toronto teaches theology through design

How a ‘green’ church in Toronto teaches theology through design

By Dean Dettloff

America: The Jesuit Review. August 23, 2019.

A New Story for the Earth: De-mystifying Earth Jurisprudence

A New Story for the Earth: De-mystifying Earth Jurisprudence

The Gaia Foundation

June 2019.

Review of Defiant Earth by Clive Hamilton

By Peter Reason

Winter 2019.

Change the Worldview, Change the World

Change the Worldview, Change the World

By Drew Dellinger

Kosmos Journal. Summer 2018.

“Cosmology and Ecology”

“Cosmology and Ecology”

By Sam Mickey

In The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol. 4. Oxford: Elsevier, 2018.

An Assisi of the Mind

An Assisi of the Mind

By Steve Snider

2018

Bill Plotkin’s Soulcraft Musings

Bill Plotkin’s Soulcraft Musings

Animas Valley Institute

“Thomas Berry: An Overview of His Work”

“Thomas Berry: An Overview of His Work”

By Daniel T. Spencer

Worldviews 21 (2017): 195-207.

“Sustainability pledge a natural progression for Santa Clara graduates”

“Sustainability pledge a natural progression for Santa Clara graduates”

By Sharon Abercrombie

National Catholic Reporter. June 9, 2015.

Center for Ecozoic Studies Foundational Statements/Thomas Berry Key Principles

Center for Ecozoic Studies Foundational Statements/Thomas Berry Key Principles

Prepared by Herman Greene
Center for Ecozoic Studies. May 14, 2015.

MaryKnoll Ecological Park

MaryKnoll Ecological Park

By Ace Labrador

A Labrador Blog. April 17, 2015.

Iona College program to further Thomas Berry’s ‘Great Work’

Iona College program to further Thomas Berry’s ‘Great Work’

By Sharon Abercrombie
EarthBeat. April 10, 2013.

“Reconnecting with the Earth: Finding the Spiritual Element in Agriculture at Genesis Farm”

“Reconnecting with the Earth: Finding the Spiritual Element in Agriculture at Genesis Farm”

Interview with Miriam MacGillis

Acres USA. June 2000.

Ecological Spirituality: Its History and Meaning

Ecological Spirituality: Its History and Meaning

By Donald P. St. John

Los Angeles, CA: International Conference on the Unity of the Sciences, 1988

A Guide for Praying the Stations of the Cosmos

A Guide for Praying the Stations of the Cosmos

By Ignatius Jesuit Centre

Guelph, ON, Canada

Thomas Berry’s New Story of the Universe: A New Approach to Catholic Ecological Ethics    

Thomas Berry’s New Story of the Universe: A New Approach to Catholic Ecological Ethics  

By Jose Mejo Nedumparmbil Abraham
Licentiate dissertation, Pontifical Institute of Theology and Philosophy, 2022

The Sacred Journey of the Earth Community: Towards a Functional and Ecological Spirituality via the Cosmologies of Thomas Berry and Zhou Dunyi

The Sacred Journey of the Earth Community: Towards a Functional and Ecological Spirituality via the Cosmologies of Thomas Berry and Zhou Dunyi

By Kwang Sun Choi

PhD Dissertation, University of St. Michael’s College, Toronto, 2012

The Eco-­theologies of Thomas Berry and John Zizioulas: Intimations for Ecological Justice

The Eco-­theologies of Thomas Berry and John Zizioulas: Intimations for Ecological Justice

By Idara Otu

MA Thesis, Regis College, Toronto School of Theology, Toronto, 2012

What of the Earth economy?

What of the Earth economy?

By Thomas C. Fox
National Catholic Reporter. February 5, 2010.

Theses at the Toronto School for Theology

Theses at the Toronto School for Theology

 

The North American Continent

By Thomas Berry

The Gravitation

By Thomas Berry 

An Appalachian Wedding

By Thomas Berry

It Takes a Universe

By Thomas Berry

Morningside Cathedral

By Thomas Berry

Earth’s Desire

By Thomas Berry

Carolina Prophet: Poem for Thomas Berry

By Drew Dellinger

Evening Thoughts (French translation)

Translation in progress by Daniel Laguitton

The Great Work (French translation)

Translated by Daniel Laguitton. Expected publication date: 2024.

The Dream of the Earth (French translation)

Translated by Daniel Laguitton. Novalis and Salvator, 2021.

Thomas Berry: A Biography (Korean translation)

Translated by Jai-Don Lee, Soon Lee. Pascha, 2023.

The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (Korean translation)

Translated by Jong-Ryul Hwang. Pauline, 2011.

Evening Thoughts (Korean translation)

Translated by Mann Park. Korean Institute of Christian Studies, 2015.

The Great Work (Korean translation)

Translated by Young-Sook Lee. Korea Dialogue Academy, 2009.

The Universe Story (Korean translation)

Translated by Young-Sun Maeng. Korea Dialogue Academy, 2010.

Befriending the Earth (Korean translation)

Translated by Joon-Woo Kim. Ecozoic, 2006.

The Dream of the Earth (Korean translation)

Translated by Young-Sun Maeng. Korea Dialogue Academy, 2013.

Education in a Multi-Cultural World

Tr. into Arabic for Al-Mu-allim Al-Arabi, monthly review of the Syrian Ministry of Education. September 1958.

“The Spiritual Forms of Oriental Civilizations”

Approaches to Oriental Civilizations. ed. William T. deBary. New York: Columbia University Press, 1964. (Italian translation)

Moral Evil Under Challenge: The Problem of Moral Evil and Guilt in Early Buddhism

Ed. Johannes B. Metz. Herder and Herder, 1970. (Spanish, Italian, Dutch, French, and German translations)

O sonho da terra

Traduzâo Ephraim Ferrereira Alves

Sierra Club Books, 1990

Le rêve de la terre

Initiation, Janvier 1990

Reconciliación con la Tierra: La Nueva Teología Ecológica

Tr. Elena Olivos

Santiago, Chile: Cuatros Vientas, 1997

La Sabiduria de la Cruz y su relaçion con la Sabiduria del universo

Tr. Susana Cinto, C.P.

Stairos Teologica de la Cruz. Año 1991

El misero della croce valla pacificazione tru le etnie, le culture. ed el creation

Terzo Congresso Internazionale “La Sapienza della croce”

The New Creation Story

Translated by Geseko von Lüpke

Deisonhofen D-8241, 1997

Women Religious as the Voice of the Earth: The Collected Thoughts of Thomas Berry

Rome, Italy: The Council of General Superiors of Women’s Religious Orders, 1997

An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality

Translated by Stefano Pansarasa et al.

AAM Terra Nuova, 1997

Die Autobiographie des Universum (The Dream of the Earth)

Translated by Konrad von Dietzfelbinger

Ausgabe Eugen Diederichs Verlag, München 1999

Die neue Schöpfungsgeschichte von Thomas Berry

Eugen Diedrichs Verlag, München, 1999

What Does It Mean To Be Human? (Chinese translation)

Translated by Prudence Lin

St. Martin’s Press, 2000

Gespräch mirdem kosmologen Thomas Berry

Arun verlag, 2003

The Great Work (Chinese translation)

Translated by Wang Jiayin

2023

The Great Work (Chinese translation)

Translated by Cao Jing

2005

Un Nuevo Relato

Translated by Gustavo Nin and Dieter Schonebohm

2014

The Great Work and The Riverdale Papers (Spanish)

Translated by Oscar Carvajol

In progress

“Every Being Has Rights”

Schumacher Lecture, October 2003

Gaia Institute Lecture

September 28, 1985

“The Ecozoic Era”

Schumacher Lecture, October 1991

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