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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewDedicated readers of ecology, theology, or religious philosophy will want to savor each one [of these essays]. Library Journal The volume is a fair encapsulation of the intellectual concerns for which Berry is best known. -- Christina Peppard Commonweal Thoams Berry demonstrattes in these papers the qualities he calls for: humanist vision and imagination. Resurgence When encountering the essays, one is struck by the clarity of analyses showing humanity's destructive antagonism toward the Earth. In them we observe the gradual evocation of a vision in which this antagonism is overcome so that we can live in harmony and peace on our planetary home. -- Norman Wirzba Journal of the American Academy of Religion The Sacred Universe is an important, inspiring compendium of the thought of a great soul and spiritually profound seeker, who cogently and consistently reminds, even after his death, that we must learn to feel at home in the universe. -- Stephen B. Scharper America This text will serve as an excellent introduction to [Thomas] Berry... -- Peter Ellard, Siena College The International Journal of Environmental Studies
Table of ContentsForeword, by Mary Evelyn Tucker Part I 1. Traditional Religion in the Modern World (1972) 2. Religion in the Global Human Community (1975) 3. Alienation 4. Historical and Contemporary Spirituality Part II 5. The Spirituality of the Earth (1979) 6. Religion in the Twenty-first Century (1993, 1996) 7. Religion in the Ecozoic Era (1993) Part III 8. The Gaia Hypothesis: Its Religious Implications (1994) 9. The Cosmology of Religions (1994, 1998) 10. An Ecologically Sensitive Spirituality (1996) Part IV 11. The Universe as Divine Manifestation (2001) 12. The Sacred Universe (1998, 2001) 13. The World of Wonder (2001) Notes Index
