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The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century |  | Author: Thomas Berry
Creator: Mary Evelyn Tucker
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 200
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.8 x 0.9
ISBN: 0231149522
Dewey Decimal Number: 200.905
EAN: 9780231149525
ASIN: 0231149522
Publication Date: August 24, 2009
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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 forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, Berry resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality.
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A Text for Religious Educators. December 30, 2009
Jack Dougher (Yorktown, VA USA)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
Ordained or not, no purveyor of religion today should teach without having had an extensive course using this book as one of its texts. It is too important to be relegated to those relatively few who are self-starting, spiritual seekers or environmentalists. This book deserves being used as a companion to the sacred scriptures of each and every religion. Thomas Berry has gotten to the heart of the reform of consciousness without which nothing else can adequately address our ecological crisis. His passing this year at the age of 90 is a sore loss, but this book along with other of his writings will continue to enlighten and bless us.
Recommended for spirituality collections December 20, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century is edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and comes from one of the 20th century's scholarly thinkers on spiritual intersection between humans and the natural world. Berry was a leading scholar and Catholic priest who spent over fifty years writing about earth and spirituality: THE SACRED UNIVERSE's essays represent his best writings and are recommended for spirituality collections.
The place of the human in the universe January 22, 2010
M. Clare Pierson (Hokitika NZ)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Do you wonder about what the future holds for the earth and humans? This book is based on sound science and goes beyond science to give meaning to evolution, the connectedness of all that is and the place of the human on the earth. From where does the consciousness of humans come? where is evolving consciousness leading us? Explore what the extraordinarly perceptive mind of Thomas Berry presents in relation to these questions. Another work by this author is [[ASIN:0609804995 The Great Work: Our Way into the Future
The Sacred Cosmos May 24, 2010
zenhole (Minot,MA)
Thomas Berry's timely work came into my possession as the oil disaster spread its killing stain throughout the entire Gulf of Mexico. Commentators seem concerned as to how we shall clean up the shores. The real question is "How far can the pollution travel if the well is unable to be stopped?" Is it possible that the pollution could spread to the entire earth? Would that not be the first act of the end of life on earth as we know it? If this can occur when ONE well fails, what would happen if they were all made to fail?
"The Sacred Universe" presents the mystery and miracle of Cosmic evolution, starting from a point of no dimensions, a creation "ex nihilo", through revelation through scriptures of all religions, and the personal experience of meditation wherein the wonders are received, used and praised. The icon which focuses our attention on this reality, is the photo of the earth and moon taken by the Galileo Probe. The blue/white marble of the earth contrasts to the barren brown of the moon as the only place in the Cosmos on which we know it to be the absolute perfect balance of conditions to allow the evolution of intelligent life to appreciate the wonder of it all and to help prevent the destruction of this paradise through technological possibility. Try to imagine that marble as all black.
The Sacred Universe is a cosmic "Silent Spring", that calls upon spiritualities and religions to embrace the whole cosmic evolution as the Divine Word Itself.
 Heavy Paper October 26, 2009
Chris Banner (British Columbia. Canada)
4 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book deals with difficult subjects in very clear and concise terms, but the reader has to stay alert to digest the themes and concepts. This is `heavy' paper.
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