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Bibliography of Thomas Berry's Work
“The Meadow Across the Creek”

“The Meadow Across the Creek”

By Thomas Berry This essay is published in The Great Work. I was a young person then, some twelve years old. My family was moving from a more settled part of a Southern town out to the edge of town where the new house was still being built. The house, not yet...

Special Issue on The Great Work

Special Issue on The Great Work

Special Issue of Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion. Volume 5, no. 11/111, 2001. Edited by Heather Eaton. Read full essays. Introduction to the Special Edition - Heather Eaton The Great Work Underway - Larry Rasmussen Awakening to Our Role in The Great Work -...

Revisioning the Past

Revisioning the Past

By Thomas Berry “Revisioning the Past: Why history is incomplete, and four things we’ve left out—the earth, the body, the feminine and the unconscious” The Tarrytown Letter, No. 53 (November 1985): 3-7. Read the essay here.

Bioregionalism

Bioregionalism

By Thomas Berry “Bioregionalism: A Better Way to Understand Where You Live.” The Tarrytown Letter, No. 41 (September 1984): 2-5. Read the essay here.

Contemplation and World Order

Contemplation and World Order

By Thomas Berry 1978 Read this essay here.

Religious Studies and the Global Community of Man

Religious Studies and the Global Community of Man

By Thomas Berry Journal of Dharma, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 & 2, pp. 85-100 July 1975 This essay bears some similarity to “Religion in the Global Human Community” from Berry’s The Sacred Universe, but there are also some fairly significant differences, making this a unique...

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 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...

Only The Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century

Only The Sacred: Transforming Education in the Twenty-First Century

Edited by Peggy Whalen-Levitt The Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World, 2011 The materialist philosophy that has dominated Western civilization for the past four hundred years is coming to an end. In "Only the Sacred: Transforming Education in the...

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 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...

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 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...

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