Thomas Berry
Author
1914 – 2009
Who was Thomas Berry?
Thomas Berry, C.P. was a Catholic priest of the Passionist order, cultural historian and ecotheologian.
Among advocates of deep ecology and "ecospirituality" he is famous for proposing that a deep understanding of the history and functioning of the evolving universe is a necessary inspiration and guide for our own effective functioning as individuals and as a species. He is considered a leader in the tradition of Teilhard de Chardin as demonstrated in the Introduction to his book, The Christian Future and the Fate of the Earth. Author Michael Colebrook describes two key elements in Thomas Berry’s thinking: “Firstly, the primary status of the universe. The universe is, ‘the only self-referential reality in the phenomenal world. It is the only text without context. Everything else has to be seen in the context of the universe’. The second element is the significance of story, and in particular the universe as story. ‘The universe story is the quintessence of reality. We perceive the story. We put it in our language, the birds put it in theirs, and the trees put it in theirs. We can read the story of the universe in the trees. Everything tells the story of the universe.
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- Born
- Nov 9, 1914
Greensboro - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- The Catholic University of America
- Lived in
- Greensboro
- Died
- Jun 1, 2009
Greensboro
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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