Presented by Maureen Wild. Based on the book by Thomas Berry
The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the 21st Century
The Sacred Universe addresses how history and diversity of world religions offer ways to engage with Earth, how it is necessary to connect with a spirituality that is Earth-based, and how science can coexist with the religious sensibilities of wonder and awe.
A leading scholar, cultural historian, and Catholic priest who spent more than fifty years writing about our engagement with the Earth, Thomas Berry possessed prophetic insight into the rampant destruction of ecosystems and the extinction of species. In this book he makes a persuasive case for an interreligious dialogue that can better confront the environmental problems of the twenty-first century. These scholarly and keenly sympathetic essays represent Berry’s best work, covering such issues as human beings’ modern alienation from nature and the possibilities of future, regenerative forms of religious experience. Asking that we create a new story of the universe and the emergence of the Earth within it, Berry resituates the human spirit within a sacred totality.
This event is offered in grateful partnership with the Vancouver Island Regional Library – Gabriola Branch
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