Thomas Berry - Works

Works

Thomas Berry's books include:

  • 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, See description and TOC.
  • The Christian Future and the Fate of Earth (2009), Essays edited by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim.

Berry also contributed two introductory essays ('Economics: Its Effects on the Life Systems of the World' and 'The Earth: A New Context for Religious Unity') to the volume Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology, in which Brian Swimme, Caroline Richards, Gregory Baum and others discuss the implications of Berry's thought for a range of disciplines and paradigms. Berry's 'Twelve Principles for Understanding the Universe and the Role of the Human in the Universe Process' offer a postscript to this 1987 work.

Berry was featured in the 2007 documentary What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.

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