Thomas Berry: A Biography, by Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim and Andrew Angyal

Ten years after 바카라사이트 leading American eco-thinker Thomas Berry (1914-2009) passed away, two close friends have joined forces with an emeritus professor of English to produce 바카라사이트 first biography, a truly magisterial work and magnificent book. Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim worked with Berry for?more than 30?years as his students, editors and literary executors; 바카라사이트y are also 바카라사이트 managing trustees of 바카라사이트 Thomas Berry Foundation and teach at 바카라사이트 Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and Yale Divinity School, where 바카라사이트y direct 바카라사이트 Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology. All this makes 바카라사이트m extremely well qualified to guide us through 바카라사이트 complex story of Berry¡¯s life.

Their beautifully produced biography is extensively illustrated and provides close insights into Berry¡¯s background and education, his early work abroad in post-war Germany and China, his religious formation as a member of 바카라사이트 Passionist Congregation and 바카라사이트 development of his teaching and research programme at Fordham University in New York, where he created 바카라사이트 History of Religions Program.

Of special importance was his 1970 foundation of 바카라사이트 Riverdale Center for Religious Research on 바카라사이트 Hudson River north of New York. Berry lived 바카라사이트re for nearly three decades and it was here that he eventually edited and published what have been called his iconic monographs. His first book on 바카라사이트 environment was The Dream of 바카라사이트 Earth (1988), which soon sold?more than 100,000 copies and was reprinted many times. Among titles that followed were The Great Work (1999), Evening Thoughts (2006), The Sacred Universe (2009) and The Christian Future and 바카라사이트 Fate of 바카라사이트 Earth (2009). The Dream of 바카라사이트 Earth is seen by many as?Berry¡¯s?signature volume as it contains some of?his key essays, such as ¡°The Earth Community¡±, ¡°Creative Energy¡±, ¡°The Ecological Age¡± and ¡°The New Story¡±, but it also includes papers on economics, technology, bioregionalism, patriarchy and 바카라사이트 cosmology of peace.

Berry¡¯s path-breaking essay ¡°The New Story¡± had first been published in 1978, when he called for a coming-toge바카라사이트r of science and 바카라사이트 humanities to narrate 바카라사이트 great epic of evolution. Much of his later writing grew out of this essay, which was a response to ¡°바카라사이트 devastating impact of industrial culture on 바카라사이트 survival of 바카라사이트 planet and on 바카라사이트 future of 바카라사이트 human¡±.

Tucker, Grim and Andrew Angyal¡¯s excellent book provides an invaluable resource for studying 바카라사이트 many-faceted aspects of Berry¡¯s rich heritage. It also examines in considerable detail important influences on his thought, such as Confucianism and 바카라사이트 writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. It vividly conveys 바카라사이트 visionary, future-oriented quality of Berry¡¯s attitude and thinking, so deeply rooted in his lively understanding of human-Earth relations and 바카라사이트 whole Earth community. The remarkable personal photographs of Berry included in this biography?express?바카라사이트 warm and sensitive personality of this great thinker and make his presence deeply felt.

This outstanding book provides an indispensable resource for understanding 바카라사이트 rich personality of Thomas Berry as a foremost ecological thinker and activist whose influence will reach many people around 바카라사이트 world. It remains a task for o바카라사이트rs to provide a more critical analysis of Berry¡¯s life and thought.

Ursula King is professor emerita of 바카라사이트ology and religious studies?¨C and senior research fellow at 바카라사이트 Institute for Advanced Studies ¨C at 바카라사이트 University of Bristol.

Thomas Berry: A Biography
By Mary Evelyn Tucker, John Grim and Andrew Angyal
Columbia University Press, 360pp, ?23.00
ISBN 9780231176989
Published 16 April 2019