Edited by Ervin Laszlo and Allan Combs Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 2011 This anthology presents 10 essays from leading philosophers, scientists, and spiritual visionaries--including Matthew Fox, Joanna Macy, Duane Elgin, Sean Esbjörn-Hargens, Ervin Laszlo, and...
By Anne Marie Dalton Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1999 While many feel that something must be done, few perceive the state of the ecological crisis as a "profound religious problem." While Thomas Berry sought to fire the imagination and motivate his listener to...
Anne Lonergan and Caroline Richard, Editors. Mystic Court, CT: Twenty-Third Publications, 1987 Thomas Berry presents two essays- "Earth: A New Context for Religious Unity and "Economics and its Effects on the Life Systems of the World". Responses from theologians...
By Fr. Reynaldo D. Raluto Minda News September 5, 2020 Since 2015, the Season of Creation is celebrated globally from September 1 to October 4. This year, however, the celebration in the Philippines is extended until October 11, which is the Indigenous Peoples Sunday,...
By Valerie Andrews Reinventing Home Summer 2020 A scholar and a Passionist priest who called himself a “geologian,” Berry was fluent in fourteen languages and widely read in the disciplines of archaeology, philosophy, cosmology, religion, earth science and world...
By Dean Dettloff America: The Jesuit Review August 23, 2019 Excerpt from the article: St. Gabriel’s was the first church in Canada to be certified by the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design, or L.E.E.D., rating system. From its floor plan to its building...
The Gaia Foundation June 2019 As a cultural historian, Thomas Berry reminded us that civilisations which grow rapidly by destroying their life support system, collapse rapidly too. What is required of us now, he insisted, is to transform from a human-centred to an...
By Peter Reason Winter 2019. It was several years ago that I first came across the shocking idea that humans were moving more physical stuff around the planet than the natural processes of volcanos and earthquakes, rivers and tides. In the last few years, the idea of...
By Drew Dellinger Kosmos Journal Summer 2018 Forty years after Thomas Berry’s “The New Story,” new generations are seizing on the power of narrative. I was sitting in a classroom in Assisi, Italy, with one of the leading environmental thinkers of our time, and he was...
By Sam Mickey In The Encyclopedia of the Anthropocene, vol. 4, eds. Dominick A. DellaSala and Michael I. Goldstein, 151-157. Oxford: Elsevier, 2018. Humans, throughout their evolution, have used stories, images, and symbols to understand themselves and the world...