The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth / Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim.

• Superior document: Ecology and Justice Series
• VerfasserIn: Berry, Thomas
• TeilnehmendeR: Tucker, Mary Evelyn; Grim, John
• Place / Publishing House: [s.l.] : : Orbis Books,, 2011.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Series: Ecology and Justice Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (160 p.)

"[This book] may be the best guide yet to the work of Thomas Berry. It is as though these essays embody the bonding force he calls the Great Compassionate Curve of the universe."--Catherine Keller "A highly readable gem."--Catholic Library World "Inspiring, often lyrical."--St. Anthony Messenger Like no other religious thinker, Thomas Berry has been a prophetic voice regarding Earth's destruction and the urgent need for human response from the Christian community. This book collects Berry's signature views on the interrelatedness of both Earth's future and the Christian future. He ponders why Christians have been late in coming to the issue of the environment. He reflects insightfully on how the environment must be seen as a religious issue, not simply a scientific or economic problem. In powerful and poetic language Berry presents a compelling vision of the sacredness of the universe and the interrelatedness of the Earth community. Drawing on Thomas Aquinas and Teilhard de Chardin he brings the Christian tradition into a cosmology of care for the whole of creation.

Table of Contents

Preface / by John B. Cobb, Jr -- Introduction / by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim -- Spiritual traditions and the human community -- Third mediation -- The Catholic Church and the religions of the world -- Christian cosmology -- The Christian future and the fate of Earth -- Role of the church in the twenty-first century -- Christianity and ecology -- Women religious : voices of Earth -- The wisdom of the cross -- The universe as cosmic liturgy.