Stories help us survive. They offer resonance, motivation, and sometimes redemption. Thomas Berry, the late Passionist priest and cultural historian who died in June at the age of ninety-four, believed that no story was more important to our universal human heritage than the “universe story,” which, he said, “is now needed as our sacred story.” Berry’s philosophical (...)
November 30, 1999
Books
Geologian
The Sacred UniverseEarth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first CenturyThomas BerryColumbia University Press, $22.95, 200 pp.
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