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The sacred universe : earth, spirituality, and religion in the twenty-first century / Thomas Berry ; edited and with a foreword by Mary Evelyn Tucker

Author
Berry, Thomas, 1914-2009
Published
New York : Columbia University Press, [2009]
Copyright Date
©2009
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 181 pages)
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Language Note
English.
Contents
Traditional religion in the modern world -- Religion in the global human community -- Alienation -- Historical and contemporary spirituality -- The spirituality of the Earth -- Religion in the twenty-first century -- Religion in the ecozoic era -- The Gaia hypothesis : its religious implications -- The cosmology of religions -- An ecologically sensitive spirituality -- The universe as divine manifestation -- The sacred universe -- The world of wonder.
Summary
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry 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 Berry's best work, covering such issues as human beings' modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative fo.
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ISBN
9780231520645 (electronic bk.)
0231520646 (electronic bk.)
9780231149525
0231149522
1282796577
9781282796577
9786612796579
661279657X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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