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Written by Herman Greene
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Thomas Berry, a self-described geologian, is a global prophet, and an Earth saint. He has had a major influence on CES and has inspired our work.
Key Writings
He has written four books of special importance: The Dream of the Earth (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1988), The Universe Story (co-authored with Brian Swimme) (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), The Great Work (New York: Bell Tower, 1999), and Evening Thoughts (San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 2006). The Great Work provides the best introduction to Berry’s work for new readers. The Dream of the Earth is important as the original and most comprehensive statement of Berry’s thought.
Historical Analysis
In The Great Work, Thomas Berry has given two observations about history that guide the work of CES. These are (1) the “central flaw” in human development is our “mode of consciousness that has established a radical discontinuity between the human and other modes of being and [has bestowed] all rights on the humans”; and (2) “[t]he historical mission of our times is to reinvent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.”
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