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Title: The Dream of the Earth by Thomas Berry ISBN: 0-87156-622-2 Publisher: Sierra Club Books Pub. Date: 17 March, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Fine Guide To Earth/Universe Connectivity
Comment: Thomas Berry has put together in this one book what a thousand other writers have attempted and that is: a complete format for human perception of reality that should and can pervade through all our earthly activities, esp. religion, politics and economy. Let Earth and it's biolgical processes teach and guide us to a rational, sustainable, regenerative, healthy existence.
There are many potent passages all through this work and I picked out one that I felt was inclusive of the gist of the book.
..."This universe itself, but especially the planet Earth, needs to be experienced as the primary healer, primary commercial establishment, and primary lawgiver for all that exists within this life community. The basic spirituality communicated by the natural world can also be considered as normative for the future ecological age."- Page 120
This is an excellent treatise on reverence for the creative life forces that sustain us and treat us daily to a plithora of interactive life processes and our need to acknowledge this gift by treating it with the awe and respect it deserves.
Rating: 5
Summary: A Global Story, A Saving Story
Comment: In one of his Dialogues, Plato says that the most serious difficulty one faces when attempting to philosophize is in "finding a suitable story for what one wants to say." But it's a difficulty worth facing at this time in history because a suitable story may serve to energize and advance current efforts to develop a globally responsible spirituality.
Everywhere we hear from perceptive folk that our conventional story has grown dangerously obsolete, and only by reimagining the world and our place in it can we advance beyond the dysfunctional limits of the old story.
The "dream of the earth" so beautifully described in this work by "geologian" Thomas Berry just may be the "big enough story" needed now to creatively navigate the global transition from a way of destruction to a way of sustainable wisdom rooted in a respect for the earth as respect for our very own bodies
Rating: 1
Summary: New Age Religion in the Guise of Christianity
Comment: Don't be misled. Because Thomas Berry is promoted as a Catholic priest, many people are falsely led to believe that his books present Catholic or Christian teaching about the environment. Instead, this book presents a New Age blend of do-it-yourself religion mixed with pseudo-science. If you're into that, you'll probably like this book...
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Title: The Great Work: Our Way into the Future by Thomas Berry ISBN: 0609804995 Publisher: Harmony/Bell Tower Pub. Date: 14 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: The Universe Story : From the Primordial Flaring Forth to the Ecozoic Era--A Celebration of the Unfol by Brian Swimme ISBN: 0062508350 Publisher: Harper SanFrancisco Pub. Date: 11 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Universe Is a Green Dragon: A Cosmic Creation Story by Brian Swimme ISBN: 0939680149 Publisher: Bear & Co Pub. Date: March, 1988 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Hidden Heart of the Cosmos: Humanity and the New Story by Brian Swimme ISBN: 1570752818 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: August, 1999 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Earth & Spirit: The Spiritual Dimension of the Environmental Crisis by Fritz Hull, Thomas Berry ISBN: 0826406661 Publisher: Continuum Pub Group Pub. Date: March, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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