Thomas Berry (theologian)

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

Life

Thomas Berry joined the Congregation of the Passionists in. He received his PhD in history from the Catholic University of America . He taught at many universities on the cultural heritage of China and India. He also served for many years as President of the "International Teilhard de Chardin Society".

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

In addition to several honorary doctorates and other awards, such as the Lennon Literature Prize , 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 Eart h (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

literature

• Mary Evelyn Tucker et al. a .: Thomas Berry: A Biography , New York: Columbia University Press 2019, ISBN 9780231176989