Thomas Berry : : A Biography /

Thomas Berry : : A Biography / / Mary Evelyn Tucker, Andrew Angyal, John Grim.

Thomas Berry (1914-2009) was one of the twentieth century's most prescient and profound thinkers. As a cultural historian, he sought a broader perspective on humanity's relationship to the earth in order to respond to the ecological and social challenges of our times. This first biography...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Tucker, Mary Evelyn,
Angyal, Andrew,
Grim, John,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019]
©2019
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 53 b&w photographs
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Thomas Berry and the Arc of History
  • 1. An Independent Youth
  • 2. The Call to Contemplation
  • 3. Studying History and Living History
  • 4. The Struggle to Teach
  • 5. From Human History to Earth History
  • 6. From New Story to Universe Story
  • 7. Evoking the Great Work
  • 8. Coming Home
  • 9. Narratives of Time
  • 10. Teilhard and the Zest for Life
  • 11. Confucian Integration of Cosmos, Earth, and Humans
  • 12. Indigenous Traditions of the Giving Earth
  • Epilogue
  • Appendix: Thomas Berry Timeline, 1914-2009
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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