Foreword
Brian Swimme
Introduction
Heather Eaton
Chapter 1: Thomas Berry and the New Story: An Introduction to the
Work of Thomas Berry
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Chapter 2: Exploring Thomas Berry’s Historical Vision
John Grim
Part I. Thomas Berry and Traditional Religions
Chapter 3: Thomas Berry on Yoga, Buddhism and Carl Jung
Christopher Key Chapple
Chapter 4: The Influence of Confucianism on Thomas Berry’s
Thought
Mary Evelyn Tucker
Chapter 5: Thomas Berry’s Understanding of the Psychic-Spiritual
Dimension of Creation: Some Sources
Dennis O’Hara
Chapter 6: Understanding the Universe as Sacred: The Challenge for
Contemporary Christianity
Cristina Vanin
Chapter 7: Thomas Berry and Indigenous Thought: First Nations and
Communion with the Natural World
John Grim
Chapter 8: Metamorphosis: A Cosmology of Religions in an Ecological
Age
Heather Eaton
Part II. Expanding Horizons
Chapter 9: The Great Work in a Sacred Universe: The Role of Science
in Berry’s Visionary Proposal
Anne Marie Dalton
Chapter 10: The Earth Jurisprudence of Thomas Berry and the
Tradition of Revolutionary Law
Brian Brown
Chapter 11: From the Daily and Local to the Communion of
Subjects
Paul Waldau
Afterword: Postmodern Suggestions
Stephen Dunn
Heather Eaton is professor of conflict studies at Saint Paul University.
It [this book] functions as an appreciative explication of some of
the themes and backgrounds in Berry's work.
*ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment*
This book, edited by Canadian theologian Heather Eaton, is clearly
to be the definitive work on Thomas Berry. Berry was an immensely
learned man. His lifetime of study led him across many groups of
religion, philosophies, cultures, and science. His vision of a new
universe story synthesized these many fields of thought. This book
of fourteen essays elucidates these many areas of knowledge that
went into his planetary vision.
*Rosemary Radford Ruether, Claremont School of Theology*
Thomas Berry is one of the powerful and original thinkers of the
last century; it's very good to see his crucial work set in
context.
*Bill McKibben, author of "Radio Free Vermont"*
This book makes clear that Berry’s insight that "the universe is a
communion of subjects" has an importance comparable to that of the
evolutionary origins of human beings, the unconscious dimension of
experience, and the relativity of space and time. Perhaps now, in
the twenty-first century, this book will enable far more people to
appreciate his vision and to appropriate it, critically but
humbly.
*John Cobb, Claremont Lincoln University*
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