Thomas Berry

Thomas Berry CP ( born November 9, 1914 in Greensboro, North Carolina, † June 1, 2009 ) was an American Catholic theologian, and cultural historian.

Life

Thomas Berry joined the Congregation of the Passionists. At the Catholic University of America he received his doctorate in history. He taught at many universities over the cultural heritage of China and India. He also served many years as president of the "International Teilhard de Chardin Society ".

He devoted himself in his books of religious interdisciplinary research and deep ecology. In 1970 he founded the Riverdale Center of Religious Research in Riverdale in the Bronx, New York.

In addition to several honorary doctorates and other awards, such as the Lennon Prize for Literature, he was an honorary member of the Club of Budapest.

Works

  • The Dream of the Earth
  • The Historical Theory of Giambattista Vico (1949 )
  • Buddhism ( 1968)
  • The Religions of India ( 1972)
  • The Dream of the Earth (1988 )
  • Befriending the Earth (with Thomas Clarke, 1991)
  • The Universe Story From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era, A Celebration of the Unfolding of the Cosmos ( with physicist Brian Swimme, 1992)
  • The Great Work: Our Way into the Future (1999), Bell Tower / Random House, NY, ISBN 0-609-80499-5
  • Evening Thoughts: Reflecting on Earth as Sacred Community (2006), essays, edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker, A Sierra Club Book, ISBN 1-57805-130-4,
  • Ecologist
  • Cultural historian
  • Author
  • Essay
  • Roman Catholic theologian ( 20th century)
  • Roman Catholic theologian ( 21st century)
  • Passionist
  • Americans
  • Born in 1914
  • Died in 2009
  • Man
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