Thomas Berry: A Biography

✍ Scribed by Mary Evelyn Tucker; John Grim; Andrew Angyal

• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 359
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Thomas Berry (1914–2009) was one of the twentieth century’s most prescient and profound thinkers. The first biography of Berry, this book illuminates his remarkable vision and its continuing relevance for achieving transformative social change and environmental renewal.

✦ Table of Contents

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