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by Thomas Berry (Author) "HISTORY IS GOVERNED BY THOSE OVERARCHING MOVEMENTS that give shape and meaning to life by relating the human venture to the larger destinies of the..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 241 pages
  • Publisher: Crown Publications; Reprint edition (1 Dec 2000)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0609804995
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609804995
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 182,237 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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The future can only exist if humans understand how to commune with the natural world rather than exploit it, explains author and renowned ecologist Thomas Berry. "Already the planet is so damaged and the future is so challenged by its rising human population that the terms of survival will be severe beyond anything we have known in the past."

This may sound like a scolding, doomsday prophet, yet Berry is an optimistic soul, hopeful that humans will rise to the challenge of cherishing the natural world in the third millennium. "Our future destiny rests even more decisively on our capacity for intimacy in our human-Earth relations", Berry predicts. From this premise, he reveals why we need to adore our blessed planet, while also examining why humans are culturally driven toward exploiting nature. Because Berry has a science background as well as a spiritual orientation (he is the founder of the History of Religions Programme at Fordham University), he brings a balanced and fresh voice to social ecology. Even though he writes for the masses, Berry is by no means a lightweight--chapters include "Ecological Geography", "The Extractive Economy", "The Corporation Story" and "Reinventing the Human." --Gail Hudson --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.



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A cultural historian synthesizes his own work in the areas of religious history and cultural studies to argue for creating a new path for ecological and cultural survival. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars An inspiration for the future, 7 Oct 2009
By Dr. H. A. Jones (Wales) - See all my reviews
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The Great Work: Our way into the future, by Thomas Berry, Bell Tower, New York, 1999, 256 ff.

An inspiration for the future
By Howard A. Jones

Thomas Berry, who died in June 2009, was a Roman Catholic priest who had a unique vision of what religion, and Christianity in particular, should be about - not primarily about individual salvation but care of the planet for the wellbeing of all living things. The Great Work of the title is an exhortation to all of us to embrace this philosophy of the love of others through care of the environment. The great age of 94 at which he died is a measure of the depth of wisdom of his message.

Though the book contains warnings enough of the perils for humankind if we continue on our path of materialistic self-interest, overall this is a message of hope, of what we can become if we have the moral strength and courage to shift the focus of our existence from ourselves with our short-term goals to the continuing existence of life on the planet: `We think of the Earth more as the background for economic purposes or as the object of scientific research rather than as a world of wonder, magnificence and mystery for the unending delight of the human mind and imagination.' A primary concern for humankind `must be to recover an integral relation with the universe'.

Like some other contemporary futurists Berry lays great emphasis on the importance of the role of education in schools and universities. The whole emphasis of education has become the acquisition of facts rather than to `hear the voice of the rivers, the mountains, or the sea
. . . We have disengaged from that profound interaction with our environment that is inherent in our nature' and which finds natural expression in the indigenous peoples of the world. `The other-than-human world is not recognised as having any inherent rights or values . . . we have silenced too many of those wonderful voices of the universe that spoke to us of the grand mysteries of existence.'

This is an inspirational book for anyone who is sensitive to the plight of the planet and who wants to immerse themselves in the spiritual journey towards what another futurist, Frank Parkinson, called metanoia - a fundamental shift in our outlook on the world.

Dr Howard A. Jones is the author of The Thoughtful Guide to God (2006) and The Tao of Holism (2008), both published by O Books of Winchester, UK.

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