The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-First Century
A Religion, Nature, Spirituality book. Selected essays written from 1972 to 2001 capture Berry's view of the universe as one...
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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- ISBN: 9780231149525 / 231149522
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For Berry the purpose of religion is not actually uncovering the Divine, but "self-authentication" (42). He paradoxically demands a "recovery of the sacred" while using language that denies the reality of the sacred. The result is a humanism that employs religious terms where it sees fit, but is actually radically opposed to all religion.... Selected essays written from 1972 to 2001 capture Berry's view of the universe as one sacred community and humanity's need to see itself ethically and spiritually in the broader context of earth and cosmos. Berry calls for a return to Natural Theology - the belief that the cosmos is the primary source of divine revelation - as the unifying principle for religion in the 21st Century.
