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Thomas Berry was an original and prophetic voice for the Earth community. As a gifted speaker, an inspiring writer, and a beloved teacher, he reshaped our thinking about human-Earth relations. Drawing on his broad knowledge of the world religions and his deep feeling for the journey of the universe, he identified “story” as a means of guiding humans into the future. This chapter presents the vision of his new cosmology and its implications for practical spirituality.
This builds upon the introduction to the selected writings of Thomas Berry edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.
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Sections of this essay are adapted from the Teilhard Study titled “Thomas Berry: Reflections on His Life and Thought,” by John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker, Fall 2010, #61.
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John Cobb, preface to The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth, by Thomas Berry, eds. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim (Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2009), xi.
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Tucker, M.E., Grim, J. (2018). Thomas Berry: A New Cosmology and Practical Spirituality. In: Giri, A. (eds) Practical Spirituality and Human Development. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0803-1_25
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