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 erudite 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.